Franz Thomas Bruss

Franz Thomas Bruss is a Belgian-German professor of mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is director of "Mathématiques Générales" and co-director of the probability chair.

His main research activities in mathematics are in the field of probability:
* 1/"e"-law of best choice
* Pascal processes
* Odds theorem of optimal stopping
* Odds algorithm (Bruss-algorithm)
* Galton–Watson processes
* Borel-Cantelli lemma
* Probabilistic interpretation of Taylor series

Life

Bruss studied mathematics at the Universities Saarbrücken, Cambridge and Sheffield. He obtained in Saarbrücken 1977 his Dr. rer. nat (Ph.D.) under Professor Gerd Schmidt with his thesis "Hinreichende Kriterien für das Aussterben von Modifizierten Verzweigungsprozessen" (Sufficient conditions for the extinction of Branching Processes) and the Dr. en sciences of Belgium one year later. [MathGenealogy|id=86683] He taught at the Universities of Namur, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, University of California at Santa Barbara , University of Arizona, Tucson, and University of California at Los Angeles. Since 1990 he has been at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Vesalius College and since 1993 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles with visiting positions at the Universities of Antwerp , Zaire, Purdue University and the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Bruss is a a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics , a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and elected member of the Tönissteiner Kreis.

Sources

(Translated from German Wikipedia/ Franz Thomas Bruss/)

External links

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* [http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~tbruss/ Thomas Bruss’ Homepage] am "Département de Mathématique" der "Université Libre de Bruxelles"