Full name Gilbert A. Hunt, Jr. Role Mathematician Name Gilbert Hunt | US Open QF (1938, 1939) Country (sports) United States Handed Right-handed | |
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand) Died May 30, 2008, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Similar People Dwight Phillips, Wallace Spearmon, Matthew Tegenkamp, Bernard Lagat, LaShawn Merritt | ||
Gilbert Agnew Hunt, Jr. (March 4, 1916 – May 30, 2008) was an American mathematician and amateur tennis player active in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Tennis career
Hunt reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1938 and 1939.
Scientific career
He became a mathematics professor at Princeton University specializing in probability theory, Markov processes, and potential theory.
The Hunt process is named after him.
References
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