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Selim Krein

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Selim Krein · Science & Medicine

What

Functional analysis; interpolation of operators

When

1917, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) — 1999, Voronezh, Russia

Where

Kiev · Voronezh

Biography

Selim Krein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Functional analysis; interpolation of operators

How & why

Selim Grigorievich Krein was a Soviet mathematician who made major contributions to functional analysis, the interpolation of linear operators, operator theory and mathematical physics, and authored several influential monographs. Jewish and born in Kiev — brother of the mathematician Mark Krein — he trained dozens of doctoral students and founded the celebrated Voronezh Winter Mathematical Schools.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Functional analysis; interpolation of operators

1917

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics