Gabor Szego
Gabor Szego · Science & Medicine
Theory of orthogonal polynomials; Szego's theorem
1895, Kunhegyes, Hungary — 1985, Palo Alto, California, USA
Hungary · Germany · United States
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Gabor Szego was a Hungarian-born American mathematician renowned for his theory of orthogonal polynomials and Toeplitz matrices, including Szego's theorem on Toeplitz determinants. Jewish, he fled Nazi Germany and became chair of mathematics at Stanford. His classic texts with Pólya trained generations of analysts.
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Theory of orthogonal polynomials; Szego's theorem
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