Harold Widom | |
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| Born | September 23, 1932 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | January 20, 2021 (aged 88) |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago City College of New York |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Cornell University University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Doctoral advisor | Irving Kaplansky |
Harold Widom (September 23, 1932 – January 20, 2021)[1][2] was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994.