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Naum Akhiezer

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Naum Akhiezer · Science & Medicine

What

Approximation theory and the classical moment problem

When

1901, Cherikov (now Belarus), Russian Empire — 1980, Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR)

Where

Soviet Union (Ukraine)

Biography

Naum Akhiezer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Approximation theory and the classical moment problem

How & why

Naum Ilyich Akhiezer was a Soviet-Ukrainian mathematician known for fundamental work in approximation theory and the classical moment problem, and for connecting the inverse problems of differential and difference operators to the Jacobi inversion of Abelian integrals. He wrote classic analytical monographs and studied the history of mathematics. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Approximation theory and the classical moment problem

1901

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics