Shaul Reuven Foguel (, December 5, 1931 - December 19, 2020) was an Israeli mathematician. Shaul Foguel was born to one of the founding families of the City of

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and his mother Dora Malkin was a direct descendant of

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. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from the

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and his PhD in Mathematics from

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in 1958. He wrote his dissertation under

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on "Studies in Spectral Operators and the Basis Problem". Shaul Foguel was Professor Emeritus of the

, and a supporter of the Israeli Left. He ran in the 1969 Knesset elections on the Peace List along with

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, although it failed to win a seat. He spent his retirement in

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, where his two sons, Professor Tuval Foguel of

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, and Sy Foguel, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies live.

Publications

* Shaul R. Foguel "Selected topics in the study of Markov operators" Dept. of Mathematics,

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, 1980 * Shaul R. Foguel "The Ergodic theory of Markov processes" Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1969

Selected articles

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Foguel, Shaul Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israeli mathematicians Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni 1931 births 2020 deaths