Gábor Szegő
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Gábor Szegő (January 20, 1895 – August 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician.
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Szegő was born in Kunhegyes, Hungary of Jewish heritage. His most important work centered on Toeplitz matrices and orthogonal polynomials. He was a teacher of János von Neumann. His book Orthogonal polynomials published in 1939 is a classic within its field and is still widely used as a reference in polynomial theory.
He died in Palo Alto, California, USA.
[edit] See also
- Szegő kernel
- "Problems and theorems in analysis"
[edit] External links
- Gábor Szegő at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Gábor Szegő". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.