Gábor Szegő
Hungarian mathematician (1895–1985) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gábor Szegő (Hungarian: [ˈɡaːbor ˈsɛɡøː]) (January 20, 1895 – August 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was one of the foremost mathematical analysts of his generation and made fundamental contributions to the theory of orthogonal polynomials and Toeplitz matrices building on the work of his contemporary Otto Toeplitz.
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Gábor Szegő | |
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Born | (1895-01-20)20 January 1895 |
Died | 7 August 1985(1985-08-07) (aged 90) |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Known for | Fekete–Szegő inequality Pólya–Szegő inequality Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem Rogers–Szegő polynomials Szegő kernel Szegő limit theorems Szegő polynomial Szegő theorem Szegő recurrence |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Königsberg Washington University in St. Louis Stanford University |
Thesis | Ein Grenzwertsatz über die Toeplitz Determinanten einer reellen Funktion (1918) |
Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Wirtinger Philipp Furtwängler |
Doctoral students | Paul Rosenbloom Joseph Ullman |
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