Theodore Hill
Theodore Preston (Ted) Hill (born December 28, 1943 in Flatbush ) is an American mathematician .
After studying engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point , business mathematics ( operations research ) at Stanford University and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley , he received his Ph.D. in 1977 at Berkeley. PhD in mathematics. Subsequently, until his retirement in 2003, he worked as a mathematics professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology . In addition, he held visiting professorships in America and Europe, including at the University of Göttingen in the winter semester of 1988/89.
The focus of his scientific work is optimization problems. He was also instrumental in the further development of Benford's Law in order to make it useful for the detection of white-collar crime , such as fraud and embezzlement in companies and tax evasion .
A contribution on gender-specific differences in the distribution of intelligence quotients , written together with Sergei Lwowitsch Tabachnikov for the New York Journal of Mathematics , was withdrawn twice before publication.
Web links
- Ted Hill at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Literature by and about Theodore Hill in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Harald Martenstein : About Sportlerinnen und Sportler, in: Zeit Magazin No. 48, November 22, 2018, p. 10. For Martenstein, the removal of the article from the magazine is an example of "research that is suppressed."
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hill, Theodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hill, Theodore Preston (full name); Hill, Ted |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flatbush |