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This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the {{User sandbox}} template. Anatole Beck (* 19 March 1930 in New York City; 21 December 2014 in Madison, Wisconsin ) [1] was an American mathematician.

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).[2] 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

References

  1. ^ "Anatole Beck in Memorium". University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics.
  2. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project - Anatole Beck". Mathematics Genealogy Project.