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Lipot Fejer

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Lipot Fejer · Science & Medicine

What

Fourier analysis; Fejer's theorem on summability

When

1880, Pécs, Hungary — 1959, Budapest, Hungary

Where

Hungary

Biography

Lipot Fejer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fourier analysis; Fejer's theorem on summability

How & why

Lipot Fejer was a Hungarian mathematician known for foundational work in Fourier analysis, especially Fejer's theorem on the (C,1) summability of Fourier series, which showed that a continuous function's Fourier series is Cesàro-summable to the function. He led a celebrated Budapest school of analysis. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Fourier analysis; Fejer's theorem on summability

1880

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics