Professor
Harold Widom
(
–
)
1932
2021
University of California, Santa Cruz
;
Santa Cruz, CA
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2006
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus. Researcher on concrete operatory theory and related asymptotic problems. Made contributions to the theory of Fredholm determinants, Toeplitz determinants, orthogonal polynomials, Painleve equations, and random matrix theory. Together with Craig Tracy, discovered the Tracy-Widom distributions.
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