Benjamin Weiss
Benjamin Weiss (* 1941 in New York City ) is an Israeli mathematician.
Weiss received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1965 with Willi Feller ( Vibrating systems and positively preserving semi-groups ). Until his retirement (2009) he was a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1967 he was a senior lecturer there, assistant professor in 1971 and professor in 1974.
He was visiting scholar at Yeshiva University and Stanford University , at IBM and at MSRI .
Weiss deals with dynamic systems, ergodic theory , symbolic and topological dynamics.
With Matthew Foreman he works on dynamic systems in descriptive set theory. He, LW Goodwyn and Roy Adler (with whom he also worked a lot) came up with the street coloring problem that Avraham Trakhtman solved in 2007.
In 1974 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver (The structure of Bernoulli shifts).
Elon Lindenstrauss is one of his doctoral students .
Since 2000 he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Fonts
- with Donald Ornstein , Daniel J. Rudolph Equivalence of measure preserving transformations , American Mathematical Society 1982
- with Ornstein Statistical properties of chaotic systems , Bulletin AMS, Vol. 24, 1991, p. 1
- Single orbit dynamics, American Mathematical Society 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weiss, Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |