Walter Philipp

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Walter Philipp 1987 in Vienna
The north face of the Civetta in the Dolomites

Walter Philipp (born December 14, 1936 in Vienna ; † July 19, 2006 near Mixnitz ) was an Austrian mathematician who dealt in particular with probability theory and number theory.

From 1955 Philipp studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna . In 1960 he received his doctorate under Edmund Hlawka and was then an assistant there. After his habilitation in Vienna, he went to the USA, first to Montana and from 1964 as a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 2000 he retired there. He died of a heart attack on a mountain tour near Graz.

He dealt first with number theory (metric theory of uniform distribution) and algebra, then with mathematical statistics and probability theory and their application in number theory (probabilistic number theory), where he solved a problem by Paul Erdős . Most recently he devoted himself to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics with Karl Hess .

Philipp was an external member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics.

As a student, he was a well-known mountaineer who, with Dieter Flamm, managed a difficult first ascent on the north face of the Civetta in the Dolomites.

Michael T. Lacey is one of his PhD students .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He published his memories of Erdős in: The profound impact of Paul Erdős on probability limit theory - A personal account , in Paul Erdős and his Mathematics , Volume 1, Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies 11, Budapest 2002, pp. 549-566
  2. ^ Hess, Philipp Breakdown of Bell's theorem for certain objective local parameter spaces , Proc. Nat. Acad. Science, Volume 101, February 17, 2004, p. 1799. You claim to have constructed a theory of hidden variables that circumvents Bell's inequality , but this has been criticized, for example, by Anton Zeilinger .
  3. ↑ Reinhold Messner : The great walls. From the north face of the Eiger to the south face of Dhaulagiri , BLG Buchverlag, 2000, ISBN 3405159814
personal data
SURNAME Philipp, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2006
Place of death Mixnitz