William Feller

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William Feller was a Croatian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to probability theory and for co-developing key results such as the Lindeberg–Feller central limit theorem.

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William Feller canonical 4
Vilim Feller 2
W. Feller 1

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instanceOf mathematician
probabilist
university professor
academicDegree PhD in mathematics
alsoKnownAs Vilim Feller
linked to: William Feller

W. Feller
linked to: William Feller
awardReceived Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
linked to: Gibbs Lectureship

National Medal of Science
birthName Vilim Feller
linked to: William Feller
countryOfCitizenship Croatia
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1906-07-07
dateOfDeath 1970-01-14
doctoralAdvisor Richard Courant
educatedAt University of Göttingen
University of Zagreb
employer Brown University
Cornell University
Princeton University
ethnicGroup Croats
familyName Feller
fieldOfWork mathematical analysis
probability theory
stochastic processes
givenName William
hasPart An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume I
An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume II
influenced modern probability theory
theory of Markov processes
knownFor Lindeberg–Feller central limit theorem
foundational contributions to modern probability theory
popularizing probability through expository writing
languageOfWorkOrName Croatian
English
German
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
notableWork An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications
Feller process
Feller semigroup
linked to: Markov semigroup

Lindeberg–Feller central limit theorem
placeOfBirth Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Zagreb
placeOfDeath New York City
United States of America
positionHeld professor of mathematics at Princeton University
workLocation Ithaca, New York
Princeton, New Jersey
Providence, Rhode Island

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Paul Lévy influenced William Feller
William Feller birthName Vilim Feller
linked to: William Feller
William Feller alsoKnownAs Vilim Feller
linked to: William Feller
William Feller alsoKnownAs W. Feller
linked to: William Feller
Busemann–Feller theorem namedAfter William Feller
Charles M. Newman doctoralAdvisor William Feller