Franz Thomas Bruss
Franz Thomas Bruss ( born September 27, 1949 in Kleinblittersdorf (Saarland) ) is a German mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research area is probability theory.
Life
Bruss studied mathematics and economics at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Cambridge and Sheffield. After completing his doctorate under Professor Gerd Schmidt in Saarbrücken with the dissertation adequate criteria for the extinction of the Modified branching processes, he taught at the Universities of Namur, Glasgow ( Strathclyde ), Santa Barbara (UC ), Tucson ( UofA ) and Los Angeles ( UCLA). He was also a visiting professor at the universities of Kinshasa Zaire, Antwerp and repeated at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Since 1990 he teaches in Brussels, first at Vesalius College of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and since 1993. Université Libre de Bruxelles as Director of the Service and the Department Mathématiques Générales probability theory
Awards and Affiliations
Bruss is Dr. rer. nat. and Dr. sc s in mathematics, a member of the Tönissteiner circle, a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
His research in mathematics are mainly within the probability theory. In professional circles, F. Thomas Bruss was his proof of 1/e-Gesetzes the best choice of 1/e-law best choice (1984 ), the development of the odds algorithm odds Strategy (2000 ) and by the solution ( with Marc Yor ) the problem of the so-called last arrival -arrival problem- load (2012 ) is known. Other works include among others the secretaries problem, Pascal processes, the Borel - Cantelli lemma, bisexual Galton - Watson processes, so - called Resource Dependent Branching Processes, as well as algorithms for monotone subsequences.
Bruss is Jacques- Deruyts Prize winner for mathematics (2000-2004) of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium and a visiting professor of the Collège Belgique. For 2005, published in Scientific American article on the odds - strategy he received from the European Mathematical Society ( EMS) first prize in the competition articles of 2005., 2011, Thomas Bruss award Commandeur de l' Ordre de Léopold (Belgium ) awarded.