János Galambos
János Galambos (born September 1, 1940 in Zirc , Hungary ; † December 19, 2019 ) was a Hungarian mathematician who mainly worked in the field of probability theory and mathematical statistics .
Live and act
János Galambos studied mathematics from 1958 to 1963 at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. In 1963 he obtained his master’s degree . In the same year he received his doctorate with Alfréd Rényi .
From 1964 to 1965 he worked as a research assistant at the Loránd Eötvös University. From 1965 to 1969 he was a lecturer at the University of Ghana and from 1969 to 1970 at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria . From 1970 he was a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.
János Galambos was married to Eva M. geb. Santa and lived in Willow Grove , Pennsylvania , United States .
Honors and memberships
- 1993: Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2001: Corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering
Fonts
János Galambos has published over 100 scientific papers in specialist journals, wrote several books and edited anthologies.
- Representations of real numbers by infinite series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1976, ISBN 3-540-07547-X .
- with Samuel Kotz: Characterizations of probability distributions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1978, ISBN 3-540-08933-0 .
- The Asymptotic Theory of Extreme Order Statistics. Wiley, New York 1978, ISBN 0-471-02148-2 .
- Advanced Probability Theory. Dekker, New York 1988, ISBN 0-8247-7873-1 .
- with Italo Simonelli: Bonferroni type inequalities with applications. Springer, New York et al. 1996, ISBN 0-387-94776-0 .
- with Italo Simonelli: Products of random variables. Applications to problems of physics and to arithmetical functions. Dekker, New York 2004, ISBN 0-8247-5402-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about János Galambos in the catalog of the German National Library
- János Galambos in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- János Galambos in the Oberwolfach Photo Collection
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janos Galambos (1940-2019) on the website of the American Mathematical Society.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Galambos, János |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zirc |
DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 2019 |
Place of death | Willow Grove , Pennsylvania , United States |