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Naum Vilenkin

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Naum Vilenkin · Science & Medicine

What

Special functions, group representations, and combinatorics

When

1920, Moscow, Soviet Union — 1991, Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)

Where

Soviet Union · Russia

Biography

Naum Vilenkin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Special functions, group representations, and combinatorics

How & why

Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin was a Soviet mathematician known for his work on special functions and the representation theory of Lie groups, as well as on combinatorics, and celebrated as a gifted expositor whose textbooks on functional analysis and combinatorics educated generations. He is documented among Jewish mathematicians.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Special functions, group representations, and combinatorics

1920

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics