Franz Thomas Bruss

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Franz Thomas Bruss (born September 27, 1949 in Kleinblittersdorf ( Saarland )) is a German mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles . His research area is probability theory.

Life

Bruss studied mathematics and economics at the Universities of Saarbrücken , Cambridge and Sheffield . After receiving his doctorate under Professor Gerd Schmidt in Saarbrücken with the dissertation Sufficient criteria for the extinction of modified branching processes , he taught at the universities of Namur , Glasgow (Strathclyde), Santa Barbara (UC), Tucson (UofA) and Los Angeles (UCLA). He was also visiting professor at the universities of Kinshasa Zaire, Antwerp and repeatedly at the Université Catholique de Louvain . He has been teaching in Brussels since 1990, first at the Vesalius College of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and since 1993 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles as director of the Service Mathématiques Générales and the chair of probability theory.

Research and Awards

Bruss is Dr. rer. nat. and Dr. en sc. in mathematics, member of the Tönissteiner Kreis , Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , member of the International Statistical Institute , and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics .

His research areas in mathematics are mainly within probability theory . Thomas Bruss became known in specialist circles for his proof of the 1 / e-law of best choice (1984). Other important contributions to the theory and applications of optimal stopping are his development of the odds algorithm ( odds strategy ) (2000), the solution (together with Marc Yor ) of the so-called last -arrival problem and his Articles about different versions of the secretary problem and so-called Pascal processes . His work also covers probabilistic methods of analysis (Taylor and Bernstein polynomials), limit theorems (e.g. Borel-Cantelli Lemma ), probabilistic modeling and algorithms (monotonous sub-sequences) and branching processes ( bisexual Galton-Watson processes , resource dependent Branching Processes ).

Bruss is Jacques Deruyts Prize Winner for Mathematics (2000–2004) of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium and visiting professor at the Collège Belgique. For the article on the odds strategy published in Spektrum der Wissenschaft in 2005 , he received first prize in the European Mathematical Society (EMS) article competition . In 2011 Thomas Bruss was awarded the Commandeur de l'Ordre de Léopold (Belgium) award. Since January 1st 2017, Bruss is President of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium .

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  1. ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project: Franz Thomas Bruss . Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University ( online [accessed November 30, 2006]).
  2. ↑ Article Competition 2005: Results . European Mathematical Society ( online [accessed November 30, 2006]).

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SURNAME Bruss, Franz Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruss, F. Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Belgian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinblittersdorf , Saarland