Full name | Gilbert A. Hunt, Jr. |
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Country (sports) | United States |
Born | March 4, 1916 Washington, D.C. |
Died | May 30, 2008 Princeton, New Jersey |
(aged 92)
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
Singles | |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
US Open | 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.
Hunt reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1938 and 1939.
He became a mathematics professor at Princeton University specializing in probability theory,Markov processes, and potential theory.
The Hunt process is named after him.