Yael Dowker
Yael Dowker | |
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יעל דוקר | |
Yael Dowker in New Orleans, 1961. | |
| Born | Yael Naim 30 October 1919 |
| Died | 28 January 2016 (aged 96) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University Radcliffe College |
| Thesis | The Ergodic Theorems and Invariant Measure (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | Witold Hurewicz |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study, Victoria University of Manchester, University of London |
| Notable students | William Parry |
Yael Naim Dowker (Hebrew: יעל נעים דוקר; born Yael Naim; 30 October 1919 – 28 January 2016) was an Israeli-born English mathematician, prominent especially due to her work in the fields of measure theory, ergodic theory and topological dynamics.