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Stefan Bergman

Who

Stefan Bergman · Science & Medicine

What

Complex analysis; the Bergman kernel

When

1895, Częstochowa, Poland (Russian Empire) — 1977, Palo Alto, California, USA

Where

Poland · United States

Biography

Stefan Bergman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Complex analysis; the Bergman kernel

How & why

Bergman was a Polish-American mathematician known for the Bergman kernel and the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces in complex analysis, tools with lasting importance in several complex variables and applied mathematics. His name is attached to the Bergman space and Bergman metric. Jewish, he fled Nazi Europe and settled in the United States, mostly at Stanford.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Complex analysis; the Bergman kernel

1895

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics