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Jacob T. Schwartz

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Jacob T. Schwartz · Science & Medicine

What

Functional analysis and theoretical computer science

When

1930, New York City, USA — 2009, New York City, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Jacob T. Schwartz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Functional analysis and theoretical computer science

How & why

Jacob T. Schwartz was an American mathematician and computer scientist at NYU's Courant Institute, co-author of the monumental treatise Linear Operators, and a founder of the SETL programming language and of work in robotics, parallel computing and computational geometry. He founded NYU's computer science department. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Functional analysis and theoretical computer science

1930

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics