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189:, where he served as a professor of Applied Mathematics. He made notable contributions to fractal sets, fluid dynamics, random walks, and pioneered the combinatorial theory of special functions of mathematical physics. 407: 427: 422: 232:. He was very active in advancing mathematics education, and chaired the department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute. He also started the Israel 442: 412: 303:
Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods
224:(then the Ziv Institute), where he became a founding member of the Department of Applied Mathematics. During the Academic Year 1954-1955 he visited the 205:, completing his doctoral thesis on "Some Geometrical Properties of Linearly Measurable Plane Sets of Points" under A.S. Besicovitch in 1935. During 432: 447: 311: 185:(3 August 1911 – 18 November 1993) was a British-Israeli mathematician and one of the founders of the Faculty of Mathematics at the 331: 417: 236:
and coached the Israeli team for many years, as well as edited mathematics periodicals for high school students and amateurs.
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How Joe Gillis discovered combinatorial special function theory
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as part of the Electronic Computer Project headed by
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The Yosef Gillis National Youth Mathematics Olympiad
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and had two daughters. He died on 18 November 1993.
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Joseph E. Gillis
Sunderland
Great Britain
Rehovot
Israel
Cambridge University
Olga Kirsch
Weizmann Prize
Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral advisor
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
Achi Brandt
Weizmann Institute of Science
Sunderland
Trinity College, Cambridge
World War II
Bletchley Park
Queen's University Belfast
Weizmann Institute of Science
Institute for Advanced Study
John von Neumann
Mathematics Olympiad
Olga Kirsch
How Joe Gillis discovered combinatorial special function theory
Joseph Gillis
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Diffie, Whitfield
Field, J. V.
Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods

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