Mises was born in Lemberg, Austria. His father was a technician with the Austrian railways and his brother became an accomplished economist. Mises received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1907, became professor of mathematics at the...

1883-1953 Austrian-American applied mathematician and philosopher of science who developed the first mathematically precise frequency theory of probability and contributed to the theory of powered airplanes, plasticity, elasticity, and turbulence. He...