Gilbert Hunt Explained

Gilbert Hunt
Fullname:	Gilbert A. Hunt, Jr.
Birth Date:	March 4, 1916
Birth Place:	Washington, D.C.
Death Place:	Princeton, New Jersey^[1]
Plays:	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singlesrecord:	89-52
Singlestitles:	6
Usopenresult:	QF (1938, 1939)

Gilbert Agnew Hunt, Jr. (March 4, 1916 – May 30, 2008) was an American mathematician and amateur tennis player active in the 1930s and 1940s.

Early life and education

Hunt was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Eastern High School.^[2]

Hunt reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1938 and 1939.

Hunt received his bachelor's degree from George Washington University in 1938 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1948 under Salomon Bochner. Hunt became a mathematics professor at Princeton University specializing in probability theory,^[1] Markov processes, and potential theory.

The Hunt process is named after him. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1962 in Stockholm. His doctoral students include Robert McCallum Blumenthal and Richard M. Dudley.

Random Fourier transforms. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.. 71. 1951. 38–69. 10.1090/S0002-9947-1951-0051340-3. free. Hunt. G. A..
with Paul Erdős: Changes of sign of sums of random variables. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 3. 4. 1953. 673–687. 10.2140/pjm.1953.3.673. free. Erdős. Paul. Hunt. Gilbert.
On positive Green's functions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.. 1954. 40. 9. 816–818. 16589567. 10.1073/pnas.40.9.816. 534174. Hunt. G. A.. 1954PNAS...40..816H . free.
An inequality in probability theory. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.. 6. 1955. 506–510. 10.1090/S0002-9939-1955-0075470-4. free. Hunt. G. A.. 3.
Markoff processes and potentials. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.. 1956. 42. 7. 414–418. 16589879. 10.1073/pnas.42.7.414. 534239. Hunt. G. A.. 1956PNAS...42..414H . free.
Semi-groups of measures on Lie groups. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.. 81. 1956. 264–293. 10.1090/S0002-9947-1956-0079232-9. free. Hunt. G. A.. 2.
Some theorems concerning Brownian motion. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.. 81. 1956. 294–319. 10.1090/S0002-9947-1956-0079377-3. free. Hunt. G. A.. 2.
A theorem of Elie Cartan. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.. 7. 1956. 307–308. 10.1090/S0002-9939-1956-0077075-9. free. Hunt. G. A.. 2.

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