Bernard Koopman

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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 on dynamical systems and mathematical physics.

[edit] Some works

  • 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.

[edit] Obituary

  • Philip M. Morse In Memoriam: Bernard Osgood Koopman, 1900-1981, Operations Research,30, No. 3 (May, 1982), 417-427.

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