{"id":3308,"date":"2016-10-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-10-14T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T22:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/?p=3308","title":{"rendered":"FELLER, Vilim (William, Willy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normal\"><span class=\"Bold\">FELLER, Vilim (William, Willy),<\/span> matemati\u010dar (Zagreb, 7. VII. 1906 \u2013 New York, 14. I. 1970). Sin \u2192 Eugena Viktora i Ide ro\u0111. Oemichen, brat \u2192 Miroslava, \u2192 Ferdinanda i \u2192 Marijana. Kr\u0161ten je 1906. u crkvi sv. Marka na zagreba\u010dkom Gornjem gradu. Po zavr\u0161etku zagreba\u010dke I. gimnazije 1923, studirao je matematiku i fiziku na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu 1923\u201325. Studij je nastavio i 1926. doktorirao tezom <span class=\"Italic\">\u00dcber algebraisch rektifizierbare transzendente Kurven<\/span> na Sveu\u010dili\u0161tu u G\u00f6ttingenu, gdje je dvije godine bio asistent Richarda Couranta. God. 1928. habilitirao je za docenta \u010diste i primijenjene matematike na Sveu\u010dili\u0161tu u Kielu, gdje je tako\u0111er bio ravnatelj Instituta za primijenjenu matematiku i \u010dlan ispitnoga povjerenstva za srednjo\u0161kolske nastavnike. Nakon dolaska nacionalsocijalista na vlast, odbio je polo\u017eiti slu\u017ebenu prisegu pa je 1933. otpu\u0161ten. God. 1933\u201334. radio je u Carlsbergovu institutu za matematiku u Kopenhagenu, a 1934\u201339. predavao na sveu\u010dili\u0161tima u Stockholmu i Lundu. Nakon toga oti\u0161ao u SAD, gdje je 1939\u201344. bio profesor na Brown University u Providenceu, Rhode Island. God. 1939. pokrenuo i ure\u0111ivao <span class=\"Italic\">Mathematical Reviews,<\/span> danas jedan od najpriznatijih referentnih matemati\u010dkih \u010dasopisa u svijetu. Za profesora Cornell University u Ithaci, New York, izabran je 1945, a 1950. je pre\u0161ao na Princeton University, New Jersey, gdje je ostao do kraja \u017eivota. Kao gostuju\u0107i profesor predavao je i na Rockefeller University u New Yorku 1965\/66. i 1967\/68. Odr\u017eavao je veze sa Sveu\u010dili\u0161tem u Zagrebu, gdje je bio \u010dest gost i predava\u010d. Objavio je 104 rada iz razli\u010ditih podru\u010dja matematike i njezinih primjena u drugim znanostima. God. 1935, potaknut radom Andreja Nikolajevi\u010da Kolmogorova, definitivno se orijentirao prema teoriji vjerojatnosti i matemati\u010dkoj statistici, podru\u010djima na kojima je stekao svjetsko ime. Glavni su mu radovi o centralnom grani\u010dnom teoremu, o zakonu ponovljenog logaritma, o zakonu velikih brojeva, stohasti\u010dkim procesima, teoriji grupa i parcijalnim diferencijalnim jednad\u017ebama. Istra\u017eivao je primjenu teorije vjerojatnosti u prirodnim znanostima i dobro poznavao biologiju, napose se bavio genetikom. Osim toga bavio se teorijom difuzije, njezinom vezom s Markovljevim procesima te njihovim primjenama u fizici. Kombiniraju\u0107i funkcionalnu analizu, diferencijalne jednad\u017ebe i teoriju vjerojatnosti, predo\u010divao je proces difuzije kao Markovljev proces, a kao proces difuzije prikazivao je tako\u0111er procese ra\u0111anja i umiranja. Autor je svjetski priznate i prevo\u0111ene monografije <span class=\"Italic\">An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications.<\/span> Sura\u0111ivao je u periodici <span class=\"Italic\">Mathematische Zeitschrift<\/span> (1928, 1935\u201337), <span class=\"Italic\">Mathematische Annalen<\/span> (1930, 1932, 1936), <span class=\"Italic\">Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Phys.-Math. Klasse<\/span> (1932), <span class=\"Italic\">Acta mathematica<\/span> (1934\u201335), <span class=\"Italic\">Bulletin international de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie yougoslave des sciences et des beaux-arts. Classe des sciences math\u00e9matiques et naturelles<\/span> (1934), <span class=\"Italic\">Fundamenta mathematicae <\/span>(1934, 1939), <span class=\"Italic\">Rad JAZU<\/span> (1934, 1939), <span class=\"Italic\">Acta litterarum ac scientiarum Regiae universitatis Hungaricae Francisco-Iosephinae. Sectio scientiarum mathematicarum<\/span> (1937), <span class=\"Italic\">Statistical Research Memoirs<\/span> (1938), <span class=\"Italic\">Acta biotheoretica<\/span> (1939 \u201340), <span class=\"Italic\">Duke Mathematical Journal<\/span> (1939), <span class=\"Italic\">Physical Review<\/span> (1940), <span class=\"Italic\">Transactions of the American Mathematical Society<\/span> (1940, 1943, 1949, 1954, 1956), <span class=\"Italic\">Annals of Mathematical Statistics<\/span> (1941, 1943, 1945, 1947\u201348, 1950\u201351, 1959), <span class=\"Italic\">Quarterly of Applied Mathematics<\/span> (1943, 1951), <span class=\"Italic\">Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society<\/span>(1945, 1949, 1955), <span class=\"Italic\">Annals of Mathematics<\/span> (1946, 1951\u201355, 1957\u201358, 1970), <span class=\"Italic\">American Mathematical Monthly<\/span> (1947, 1951, 1966, 1968), <span class=\"Italic\">Illinois Journal of Mathematics<\/span> (1957\u201359), <span class=\"Italic\">Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und verwandte Gebiete <\/span>(1968\u201370). Bio je dopisni \u010dlan JAZU (danas HAZU), \u010dlan Nacionalne akademije znanosti u Washingtonu, Ameri\u010dke akademije znanosti i umjetnosti u Bostonu, Danske akademije znanosti, Kraljevskoga statisti\u010dkog dru\u0161tva u Londonu i po\u010dasni \u010dlan Londonskoga matemati\u010dkog dru\u0161tva. Tako\u0111er je biran za upravitelja Ameri\u010dkoga matemati\u010dkog dru\u0161tva i predsjednika Instituta matemati\u010dke statistike (1946). God. 1970. dobio je Nacionalnu medalju za znanost koju je ustanovio Kongres, a dodjeljuje ju predsj. SAD za istaknut prinos u fizikalnim, biolo\u0161kim, matemati\u010dkim i tehni\u010dkim znanostima. Mnogi va\u017eni matemati\u010dki pojmovi nose njegovo ime, poput: Feller\u2019s process, Feller\u2019s transition function, Feller\u2019s semigroup, Feller\u2019s property, Feller-Tornierove konstante, a jednom je asteroidu 1996. dano ime 21276 Feller (1996 TF5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Literatura\"><span class=\"SMALL-CAPS\">DJELA:<\/span> <span class=\"Italic\">An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications (Uvod u teoriju vjerojatnosti i njezine primjene),<\/span> 1. New York 1950, 19572, 19673; 2. 1966, 19722.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Literatura\"><span class=\"SMALL-CAPS\">LIT.:<\/span> William Feller, 1907\u20131970. <span class=\"Italic\">The American Statistician.<\/span> 24(2)1970. \u2013 <span class=\"Italic\">Istaknuti hrvatski znanstvenici u Americi<\/span> <span class=\"Italic\">(Distinguished Croatian Scientists in America).<\/span> Zagreb 1997. \u2013 M. Buljan-Klai\u0107: <span class=\"Italic\">Feller, Vilim. <\/span>Hrvatski biografski leksikon, 4. Zagreb 1998. \u2013 <span class=\"Italic\">Feller, Vilim.<\/span> Hrvatska enciklopedija, 3. Zagreb 2002. \u2013 <a href=\"_BL.html#_idTextAnchor000\">http:\/\/e.math.hr\/feller\/index.html<\/a>, pristupljeno 14. III. 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FELLER, Vilim (William, Willy), matemati\u010dar (Zagreb, 7. VII. 1906 \u2013 New York, 14. I. 1970). Sin \u2192 Eugena Viktora i Ide ro\u0111. Oemichen, brat \u2192 Miroslava, \u2192 Ferdinanda i \u2192 Marijana. Kr\u0161ten je 1906. u crkvi sv. Marka na zagreba\u010dkom Gornjem gradu. Po zavr\u0161etku zagreba\u010dke I. gimnazije 1923, studirao je matematiku i fiziku na Filozofskom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/?p=3308\" class=\"more-link\">Nastavi \u010ditati<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FELLER, Vilim (William, Willy)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbl.lzmk.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}