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Science & Medicine
Paul Funk
Who
Paul Funk · Science & Medicine
What
Calculus of variations; the Funk transform
When
1886, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1969, Vienna, Austria
Where
Austria · Czechoslovakia
Biography
Paul Funk is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Calculus of variations; the Funk transform
How & why
Paul Funk was an Austrian mathematician who made important contributions to the calculus of variations and introduced the Funk transform (the Minkowski–Funk transform), an integral transform on the sphere that anticipated the Radon transform used in tomography. He was of Jewish descent and, dismissed under Nazi rule in Prague, survived the war.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Contributions & Sources
Calculus of variations; the Funk transform
1886
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
