Anatole Beck

Anatole Beck (* 19 March 1930 in New York City; 21 December 2014 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American mathematician.

• Anatole Beck 2008
  Anatole Beck 2008

Beck studied at Brooklyn College (Bachelor's degree 1951) and in 1956 received his PhD from Yale University under Shizuo Kakutani PhD (On the Random Ergodic theorem). In 1958 he became Assistant Professor and in 1966 Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich, the London School of Economics and a visiting scholar at the University of Göttingen, University of Warwick, University of London and the Hebrew University.

Beck's work dealt with ergodic theory , topological dynamics, Probability in Banach spaces, measure theory , search theory and mathematics in the social sciences.

Headlines

• Michael N. Bleicher, Donald W. Crowe: Excursions into Mathematics, AK Peters, 2000 (first 1967)
• Continuous flow in the plane, fundamental doctrines of Mathematical Sciences , Springer Verlag, 1974 (participation and Mirit Jonathan Lewin) with M. Bleicher: storage of convex sets in a similar amount in Konrad Jacobs: Selecta Mathematica, Volume 3, Springer Verlag 1971
• A paradox. The Tortoise and the Hare, in Konrad Jacobs: Selecta Mathematica, Volume 5, Springer Verlag 1979