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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.
Bellow was appointed professor of mathematics in 1968 and was the first woman in the department to be named full professor. In 2012, Dr. Bellow endowed the annual Bellow Lecture Series with the hope of recognized world-class women mathematicians.
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.
Became the first woman full professor of mathematics at Northwestern University in 1968, and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1996 after a distinguished career. Read her autobiographic essay "Flashbacks of a Mathematical Life" from the September 2016 issue of the Notices of the American Math Society.
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.
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 .
Emmy Noether Lectures. 1991 Lecturer: Alexandra Bellow. Almost Everywhere Convergence: The Case for the Ergodic Viewpoint. 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.
