Hans Lewy
Hans Lewy · Science & Medicine
Partial differential equations; the Lewy example
1904, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) — 1988, Berkeley, California, United States
Germany · United States
Hans Lewy is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Partial differential equations; the Lewy example
Lewy, a German-Jewish mathematician who fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled at Berkeley, made deep contributions to partial differential equations. The Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition remains fundamental to numerical computation, while his famous 1957 'Lewy example' showed that some smooth linear equations have no solutions at all. His work shaped analysis in the twentieth century.
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Partial differential equations; the Lewy example
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