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Ernst Hellinger

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Ernst Hellinger · Science & Medicine

What

Functional analysis; the Hellinger integral

When

1883, Striegau, Germany (now Strzegom, Poland) — 1950, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Ernst Hellinger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Functional analysis; the Hellinger integral

How & why

Hellinger was a German mathematician who developed the Hellinger integral and the Hellinger distance in functional analysis and spectral theory. He was Jewish and was briefly imprisoned in Dachau in 1938 before emigrating to the United States.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Functional analysis; the Hellinger integral

1883

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics