Yael Dowker
Israeli mathematician (1919–2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yael Naim Dowker (born Yael Naim; 30 October 1919 – 28 January 2016)[1] was an Israeli-born english mathematician, prominent especially due to her work in the fields of measure theory, ergodic theory and topological dynamics.
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Yael Dowker | |
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Born | Yael Naim (1919-10-30)30 October 1919 |
Died | 28 January 2016(2016-01-28) (aged 96) |
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Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University Radcliffe College |
Thesis | The Ergodic Theorems and Invariant Measure (1948) |
Doctoral advisor | Witold Hurewicz |
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Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study, Victoria University of Manchester, University of London |
Notable students | William Parry |
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