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Joseph Kohn

Who

Joseph Kohn · Science & Medicine

What

Several complex variables; the d-bar Neumann problem

When

1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia — 2023, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Joseph Kohn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Several complex variables; the d-bar Neumann problem

How & why

Kohn was a Czech-born American mathematician who solved the d-bar Neumann problem, a central result in the theory of several complex variables and partial differential equations. Born to a Jewish family in Prague, he fled the Nazis with his family via Ecuador to the United States.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Several complex variables; the d-bar Neumann problem

1932

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics