- Bernard Koopman
Bernard Osgood Koopman (1900–1981) was a French-born American mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and
operations research .After living in France and Italy, the Koopmans immigrated to the United States in 1915. Koopman was a student of
G. D. Birkhoff and his initial work concentrated ondynamical system s andmathematical physics .Publications
* Hamiltonian Systems and Transformations in Hilbert Space Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. US 17, 315-318, 1931.
* On distributions admitting a sufficient statistic. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 39:399--409, 1936.
* The axioms and algebra of intuitive probability, Ann. Math. 41, 269-292, 1940.
* Search and Screening, first edition 1946.Further reading
* "Philip M. Morse In Memoriam: Bernard Osgood Koopman, 1900-1981". In: "Operations Research" Vol. 30, No. 3 (May, 1982), 417-427.
External links
* [http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/tjs/NOA/ReviewByWayneHughes.htm Worth reading: Search and Screening]
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