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Carlos Kenig

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Carlos Kenig · Science & Medicine

What

Harmonic analysis and nonlinear dispersive PDEs

When

1953, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Where

Argentina · United States

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Biography

Carlos Kenig is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Harmonic analysis and nonlinear dispersive PDEs

How & why

Carlos Kenig is a mathematician known for deep work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and nonlinear dispersive equations, and he served as president of the International Mathematical Union. A professor at the University of Chicago, his results shaped the modern study of wave and Schrödinger equations. He was born into a Jewish family in Buenos Aires.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Harmonic analysis and nonlinear dispersive PDEs

1953

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics