Harold Widom
Harold Widom · Science & Medicine
Toeplitz operators; the Tracy-Widom distribution
1932, Newark, New Jersey, United States — 2021, Santa Cruz, California, United States
United States
Harold Widom is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Toeplitz operators; the Tracy-Widom distribution
Widom was a mathematician known for deep work on Toeplitz and integral operators and, with Craig Tracy, for the Tracy–Widom distribution, which describes the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues of random matrices and appears widely in probability and physics. He was a longtime professor at UC Santa Cruz. He was born into a Jewish family in Newark; his brother was the chemist Benjamin Widom.
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Toeplitz operators; the Tracy-Widom distribution
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
