Janos Galambos (; 1September 194019December 2019) was a Hungarian mathematician affiliated with

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, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education and career

Galambos earned his Ph.D. in 1963 from

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in ...

, under the supervision of

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. He remained at the Eötvös Loránd University as an assistant professor from 1964 to 1965. He was lecturer at the

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from 1965 to 1969 and at

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from 1969 to 1970. In 1970, Galambos joined the faculty of

and remained there until his retirement in 2012. Galambos worked on probability theory, number theory,

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s, and many other sub-specialties, and published hundreds of papers and many books. In 1993 he was elected external member of the

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, and in 2001 he became a corresponding member of the

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.List of corresponding academics
, Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering.

Selected books

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References

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Janos Galambos
in the Oberwolfach Photo Collection 1940 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century Hungarian mathematicians Hungarian emigrants to the United States Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Probability theorists Eötvös Loránd University alumni Temple University faculty People from Veszprém County Mathematical statisticians Academic staff of the University of Ghana Academic staff of the University of Ibadan {{europe-mathematician-stub