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Charles Loewner

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Who

Charles Loewner · Science & Medicine

What

Complex analysis; the Loewner differential equation

When

1893, Lany, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1968, Stanford, California, United States

Where

Czech lands · Germany · United States

Biography

Charles Loewner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Complex analysis; the Loewner differential equation

How & why

Charles Loewner (Karel Löwner) was a mathematician known for the Loewner differential equation, a key tool in complex analysis that contributed to the eventual proof of the Bieberbach conjecture, and for work on continuous groups. Born into a Jewish family in Bohemia, he fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Complex analysis; the Loewner differential equation

1893

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics