Marek Fisz

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Marek Fisz (born Mojżesz Fisz ; born January 15, 1910 in Szydłowiec ; † November 4, 1963 in New York City ) was a Polish mathematician who worked primarily in the field of probability theory and mathematical statistics .

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Marek Fisz studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Warsaw from 1934 to 1939 . During his studies he worked as a math teacher in adult education. In 1939 he wrote his master's thesis Conformal Transformations of Singly Connected and Doubly Connected Spaces with Stanisław Saks .

During the Second World War he lived in the Soviet Union . There he married Olga Gukov in 1944, with whom he had a son Alexander (* 1946). In 1946 he returned to Poland. There he worked as a teacher and from 1947 to 1951 as a research assistant at the Statistical Office in Warsaw. In 1950 his birth name Mojżesz Fisz was changed to Marek Fisz .

In 1951, he was with a study on sampling methods in the quality control with Hugo Steinhaus and Edward Marczewski at the University of Breslau doctorate . He taught at the University of Warsaw, where he became an associate professor in 1957 . In 1955 he taught as a guest for three months at Moscow University and in 1957 for a semester at Peking University .

In 1960 Fisz went to the United States . There he taught at the University of Washington in Seattle , at Stanford University , at Columbia University and at New York University .

His textbook Probability Calculation and Mathematical Statistics first appeared in Polish in 1954 and was translated into German and English.

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  • Rachunek prawdopodobieństwa i statystyka matematyczna. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1954.
    German: Probability calculation and mathematical statistics (= university books for mathematics . Volume 40). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1958. 11th edition 1989.

literature

  • Mirosław Krzyśko: Professor Marek Fisz (1910–1963) on the Centenary of His Birth. In: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica. 269, 2012 ( online ).
  • Ronald Pyke: Obituary of professor Marek Fisz. In: Journal of Probability Theory and Allied Areas. 8, 1967, pp. 153–156, doi : 10.1007 / BF00531518 (free partial view under “Look Inside”).

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personal data
SURNAME Fisz, Marek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisz, Mojżesz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Szydłowiec
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1963
Place of death New York City