William Feller

Person · Open Library

Born

1906

Died

1970

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Germany

Active from

1966-09-23

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,917x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,815x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,531x

4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,942x

5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

   · 1958 · cited 28,681x

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Quotes

• “When this book was first conceived (more than 25 years ago) few mathematicians outside the Soviet Union recognized probability as a legitimate branch of mathematics.”
• “The results concerning fluctuations in coin tossing show the widely held beliefs about the law of large numbers are fallacious. They were so amazing and so at variance with common intuition that even sophisticated colleagues doubted that coins actually misbehave as theory predicts.”
• “The bewildered novice in chess moves cautiously, recalling individual rules, whereas the experienced player absorbs a complicated situation at a glance and is unable to account rationally for his intuition. In like manner mathematical intuition grows with experience, and it is possible to develop a natural feeling for concepts such as four dimensional space.”
• “The manner in which mathematical theories are applied does not depend on preconceived ideas; it is a purposeful technique depending on, and changing with, experience.”
• “The philosophy of the foundations of probability must be divorced from mathematics and statistics, exactly as the discussion of our intuitive space concept is now divorced from geometry.”
• “Historically, the original purpose of the theory of probability was to describe the exceedingly narrow domain of experience connected with games of chance, and the main effort was directed to the calculation of certain probabilities.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

William

Family name

Feller

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Zagreb

Place of death

New York City

Occupation

university teacher

Position held

chairperson

Educated at

I Gymnasium Zagreb

Employer

Stockholm University

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

Croatian

Doctoral advisor

Richard Courant

Doctoral student

Patrick Billingsley

Field of work

mathematical statistics

Work location

Stockholm

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