Klaus Schmidt

Klaus Schmidt ( born September 25, 1943 in Vienna) is an Austrian mathematician and professor at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna.

After studying mathematics at the University of Vienna he received his doctorate in 1968 with Edmund Hlawka. After scientific activity at the Technical University of Vienna, the University of Manchester, Bedford College and the University of Warwick in 1994 he came back to the University of Vienna. In 2009 he retired.

In 1993 he was awarded the Ferran Sunyer -i - Balaguer - Prize. He is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

It deals among others with ergodic theory and correlations with arithmetic, algebra, commutative, harmonic analysis, operator algebras and probability theory.

Writings (selection )

  • Positive definite kernels, continuous tensor products, and central limit theorems in probability theory ( with KR Parthasarathy ). Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol 272, Springer Verlag 1972.
  • Algebraic Ideas in Ergodic Theory. CBMS Lecture Notes, Vol 76, Amer. Math Soc. In 1990.
  • Dynamical systems of algebraic origin. Progress in Mathematics, Vol 128, Birkhäuser Verlag 1995.
Bedford College, London Commutative algebra K. R. Parthasarathy (probabilist) Mathematics Genealogy Project
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