Janos Galambos

Janos Galambos (Born Zirc, Hungary, 1 September 1940) is a mathematician affiliated with Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Galambos works on probability theory, number theory, statistics, and many other sub-specialties, and has published hundreds of papers and many books. Galambos earned his Ph.D. in 1963 from Eötvös Loránd University, under the supervision of Alfréd Rényi.^[1]^[2] In 1993 he was elected external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,^[3] and in 2001 he became a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering.^[4]

Selected books

The Asymptotic Theory of Extreme Order Statistics, John Wiley, New York, 1978.
Advanced Probability Theory, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1988.
Bonferroni-type Inequalities with Applications, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996.

References

^ Galambos' web site at Temple U..
^ Janos Galambos at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
^ Biography of Galambos in Advanced Probability Theory, 2nd ed.
^ List of corresponding academics, Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering.

External links

Janos Galambos in the Oberwolfach Photo Collection

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