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Richard von Mises
Austrian physicist and mathematician (1883-1953)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 19 April 1883
- Died
- 14 July 1953
- Conflict
- World War I
- Place of birth
- Lviv
- Place of death
- Boston
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Mises
- Father
- Arthur Edler von Mises
- Mother
- Adele Edle von Mises
- Spouse
- Hilda Geiringer
- Sibling
- Ludwig von Mises
- Field of work
- probability theory, dynamics, mathematics, applied mathematics, physics, aerodynamics
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, engineer, university teacher, philosopher
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Awards
- honorary doctor of the Vienna Technical University, honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- academic thesis
- Q93117179
- birth name
- Richard Edler von Mises
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- doctoral advisor
- Georg Hamel
- doctoral student
- Isidor Israel Malkin, Wilhelm Wenzel, Stefan Bergman, Yomtov Garti, Hilde Heinicke, Hermine Agavni Kalustyan, F. Rehbock, Erich Rothe, Curt Schmieden, Erich Trefftz, Geoffrey S. S. Ludford, Hans Friesecke
- educated at
- TU Wien, Akademisches Gymnasium
- employer
- Harvard University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, TU Dresden, Istanbul University, University of Strasbourg
- interested in
- probability theory
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- name in native language
- Richard von Mises
- notable work
- von Mises yield criterion, Bernstein–von Mises theorem, von Mises distribution, Cramér–von Mises criterion, Von Mises–Fisher distribution, Bivariate von Mises distribution, power iteration, yield surface
- place of burial
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- relative
- Alfred Landau, Mayer Rachmiel von Mises
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