James Shohat
James Shohat · Science & Medicine
The classical moment problem and orthogonal polynomials
1886, Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1944, USA
United States
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James (Yakov) Shohat was a mathematician who emigrated from Russia to the United States and became a leading authority on the classical moment problem and on orthogonal polynomials, co-authoring with Jacob Tamarkin the standard monograph on the subject. He worked at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Jewish.
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The classical moment problem and orthogonal polynomials
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