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Science & Medicine
Leopoldo Nachbin
Who
Leopoldo Nachbin · Science & Medicine
What
Functional analysis and approximation theory
When
1922, Recife, Brazil — 1993, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Where
Brazil · United States
Biography
Leopoldo Nachbin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Functional analysis and approximation theory
How & why
Nachbin was a Brazilian mathematician known for work in functional analysis, approximation theory (the Nachbin theorem generalizing Stone-Weierstrass) and holomorphy in infinite dimensions, and for founding influential journals and shaping mathematics in Brazil. He also taught at Rochester. He was born into a Jewish family in Recife.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Contributions & Sources
Functional analysis and approximation theory
1922
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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