- Franz Thomas Bruss
Franz Thomas Bruss is a Belgian-German professor of
mathematics at theUniversité 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 ofoptimal stopping
*Odds algorithm (Bruss-algorithm)
*Galton–Watson process es
*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 ofNamur ,University of Strathclyde Glasgow,University of California at Santa Barbara ,University of Arizona , Tucson, andUniversity of California at Los Angeles. Since 1990 he has been atVrije Universiteit Brussel , Vesalius College and since 1993 at theUniversité Libre de Bruxelles with visiting positions at the Universities ofAntwerp ,Zaire ,Purdue University and theUniversité Catholique de Louvain .Bruss is a a fellow of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics , a fellow of theAlexander von Humboldt Foundation and elected member of theTönissteiner 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"
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