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. He received his doctorate in 1918 from the University of Vienna, with Lipót Fejér as his advisor.[1] 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, still widely used as a reference in polynomial theory.
Szegő has Erdős number 1.
He died in Palo Alto, California, USA.
[edit] See also
- Szegő kernel
- Problems and theorems in analysis
- Szegő's limit formula
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Gábor Szegő”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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