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Sergiu Klainerman

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Sergiu Klainerman · Science & Medicine

What

Nonlinear PDEs and mathematical general relativity

When

1950, Bucharest, Romania

Where

Romania · United States

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Biography

Sergiu Klainerman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Nonlinear PDEs and mathematical general relativity

How & why

Klainerman is a mathematician renowned for foundational work on nonlinear partial differential equations and the mathematics of Einstein's general relativity, including global stability results for solutions of the field equations. A professor at Princeton University, he has shaped the modern analysis of wave equations. He was born into a Jewish family in Romania and emigrated to the United States.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Nonlinear PDEs and mathematical general relativity

1950

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics