Michael Fekete
Michael Fekete · Science & Medicine
Analysis; Fekete's subadditivity lemma
1886, Zenta, Austria-Hungary (now Serbia) — 1957, Jerusalem, Israel
Hungary · Mandatory Palestine · Israel
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Fekete was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician who worked in analysis and, later, helped build mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he became rector. He is known for Fekete's subadditivity lemma, a widely used tool guaranteeing the existence of certain limits, and for work on the transfinite diameter. He was Jewish and emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1928.
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Analysis; Fekete's subadditivity lemma
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