William Feller

William Feller
Born
Vilibald Srećko Feller

July 7, 1906 (1906-07-07)
DiedJanuary 14, 1970 (1970-01-15) (aged 63)
New York City, US
NationalityCroatian–American
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
University of Göttingen
Known forFeller process
Feller's coin-tossing constants
Feller-continuous process
Feller's paradox
Feller's theorem
Feller–Pareto distribution
Feller–Tornier constant
Feller–Miyadera–Phillips theorem
Proof by intimidation
AwardsNational Medal of Science (USA) in Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Sciences (1969)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Kiel
University of Copenhagen
University of Stockholm
University of Lund
Brown University
Cornell University
Princeton University
Doctoral advisorRichard Courant
Doctoral studentsPatrick Billingsley
George Forsythe
Robert Kurtz
Henry McKean
Lawrence Shepp
Hale Trotter
Benjamin Weiss
David A. Freedman
Signature

William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian–American mathematician specializing in probability theory.