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Science & Medicine
Raphael Salem
Who
Raphael Salem · Science & Medicine
What
Harmonic analysis; Salem numbers
When
1898, Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki, Greece) — 1963, Paris, France
Where
Greece · France · United States
Biography
Raphael Salem is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Harmonic analysis; Salem numbers
How & why
Raphaël Salem was a Greek-born French mathematician who worked in harmonic analysis, particularly on sets of uniqueness and on the algebraic integers now called Salem numbers. Originally a banker, he turned to mathematics and split his career between Paris and MIT. He was Jewish, from a Sephardic Jewish family of Salonika.
Sources & external links
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Contributions & Sources
Harmonic analysis; Salem numbers
1898
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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