Yael Dowker
Yael Naim Dowker (* as Yael Naim 1919 in Tel Aviv ; † January 2016 ) was an Israeli mathematician.
Dowker received his doctorate under Witold Hurewicz at Radcliffe College in 1948 ( The ergodic theorems and invariant measure ) and was a post-doctoral student at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948/1949 . She went to England with her husband in 1951, where she was first at the University of Manchester and later a professor at Imperial College London .
She dealt with dimension theory and ergodic theory . She published with Paul Erdős .
She was married to Clifford Hugh Dowker since 1944 .
William Parry was one of her PhD students .
Fonts
- Finite and finite measures, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 54, 1951, pp. 595-608
- Invariant measure and the ergodic theorems, Duke Math. J. 14 (1947), 1051-1061
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to the membership book of IAS 1980
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dowker, Yael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dowker, Yael Naim; Naim, Yael (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2016 |