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Alexandra Bellow (née Bagdasar; previously Ionescu Tulcea; born 30 August 1935) is a Romanian-American mathematician, who has made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis.
She went on to a distinguished career working in ergodic theory and probability. Now Professor Emeritus of Northwestern University’s Department of Mathematics, she has endowed an annual lecture called the Alexandra Bellow Distinguished Lecture Series.
Alexandra Bellow (1935-present) of the mathematics department was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1935. There, her father founded the first clinic of neurosurgery in while her mother was a pioneer in child neuropsychiatry.
In 2012, Alexandra Bellow decided to make a gift to Northwestern University, specifically to the Math Department. This gift was used to endow the annual lecture series which became known as the Alexandra Bellow Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics, or simply the Bellow Lecture Series .
Alexandra Bellow is a retired professor of mathematics at North- western University. Her email address is a_bellow@math. northwestern.edu. For permission to reprint this article, please contact: reprint-permission@ams.org. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/noti1417. Bryna Kra (left) after introducing Alexandra Bellow for an after-dinner address.
Alexandra Bellow was born in Bucharest, Romania. Both of her parents were physicians; her mother was also a dedicated educator who enjoyed finding new ways of teaching arithmetic to children. “I was one of her first guinea pigs,” says Bellow, “and that was a lot of fun.”
Romanian-American mathematician known for her work in Ergodic theory, harmonic analysis, and number theory. She graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1957 before traveling to the United States with permission of the then-Communist regime.
