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Menahem Max Schiffer

Who

Menahem Max Schiffer · Science & Medicine

What

Complex analysis; the Schiffer variation method

When

1911, Berlin, Germany — 1997, Palo Alto, California, USA

Where

Stanford, California · Jerusalem · Berlin

Biography

Menahem Max Schiffer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Complex analysis; the Schiffer variation method

How & why

Menahem Max Schiffer was a mathematician specializing in complex analysis and geometric function theory, best known for the Schiffer variational method and contributions to extremal problems and mathematical physics. Born in Berlin, he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine and taught at the Hebrew University before joining Stanford, where he spent most of his career. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Complex analysis; the Schiffer variation method

1911

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics