Mischa Cotlar

Mischa Cotlar (1912 Ukraine – January 16, 2007, Buenos Aires) was a mathematician who started his scientific career in Uruguay and worked most of his life on it in Argentina and Venezuela.

His contributions to mathematics are in the fields of harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and spectral theory. He introduced the Cotlar–Stein lemma.

References

• Mischa Cotlar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Horváth, John (2009), "Encounters with Mischa Cotlar", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 56 (5): 616–620, ISSN 0002-9920, MR 2509066 
• Zygmund, A. (2002) [1935], Trigonometric series. Vol. I, II, Cambridge Mathematical Library (3rd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-89053-3, MR 1963498 
• Analysis Center, Faculty of Sciences, Central University of Venezuela