Raphael Salem
Raphael Salem · Science & Medicine
Harmonic analysis; Salem numbers
1898, Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki, Greece) — 1963, Paris, France
Greece · France · United States
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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.
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Harmonic analysis; Salem numbers
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