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Rothschild Prize in Mathematics, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Benjamin ("Benjy") Weiss was born in New York City. In 1962 he received B.A. from
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in Mathematics. In 2012 Weiss was elected a Fellow of the
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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Benjamin Weiss (scientist)
Binyomin Weiss

Yeshiva University
Princeton University
Ergodic theory
Topological dynamics
Probability theory
Game theory
Descriptive set theory
Sofic groups
Mathematics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
William Feller
Itai Benjamini
Elon Lindenstrauss
Hebrew
ergodic theory
topological dynamics
probability theory
game theory
descriptive set theory
Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University
Princeton
William Feller
IBM Research
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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