Anatole Beck

Anatole Beck
Anatole Beck 2008
Born	(1930-03-19)19 March 1930 New York City, US
Died	21 December 2014(2014-12-21) (aged 84) Madison, Wisconsin, US
Alma mater	Yale University Brooklyn College
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Shizuo Kakutani

Anatole Beck (19 March 1930 – 21 December 2014)^[1] was an American mathematician.

Beck graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1947,^[2] studied at Brooklyn College (Bachelor's degree 1951) and in 1956 received his PhD from Yale University under Shizuo Kakutani PhD (On the Random Ergodic theorem).^[3] In 1958 he became Assistant Professor and in 1966 Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He married Jewish feminist writer Evelyn Torton Beck in 1954; they had two children before divorcing in 1974.^[4][5] He met his second wife Eve-Lynn Siegel Beck in 1998, she was cousins with Michael Bleicher, one of Anatole’s longtime friends.^[6]

He was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich, the London School of Economics and a visiting scholar at the University of Göttingen, University of Warwick, University of London, and the Hebrew University.

Beck's work dealt with ergodic theory, topological dynamics, Probability in Banach spaces, measure theory, search theory, linear search problem, and mathematics in the social sciences.