Marek Fisz
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 .
Live and act
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.
Fonts
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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”).
Web links
- Literature by and about Marek Fisz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Marek Fisz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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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 |