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Joseph E. Gillis was born on August 3, 1911 in Sunderland, United Kingdom. In 1948 he immigrated to Israel.
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Joseph E. Gillis was an Israeli mathematician, one of the founders of the Faculty of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science and he served as a Professor of Applied Mathematics there. He made notable contributions to fractal sets, fluid dynamics, random walks, and pioneered the combinatorial theory of special functions of mathematical physics.
Education
He studied at Trinity College, the University of Cambridge.
Career
During World War II he worked in Bletchley Park as a cryptographer.
He was a lecturer at the Maths faculty of Queen's University Belfast between 1937 and 1947.
In 1948 he joined the Ziv Institute and was one of the founders of the Department of Applied Mathematics, and also served for some years as the Academic Secretary of the Institute.
During the Academic Year 1954-1955 he visited the Institute for Advanced Study as part of the Electronic Computer Project headed by John von Neumann
Membership
He was a member of Institute for Advanced Study, Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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He was married with 2 daughters.
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- Olga Kirsch
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November 18, 1993 (aged 82) -
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Israeli -
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1937 - 1947
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1939 - 1945