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Yitzhak Katznelson

Who

Yitzhak Katznelson · Science & Medicine

What

Harmonic analysis and ergodic theory

When

1934, Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

Where

Israel · France · United States

Biography

Yitzhak Katznelson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Harmonic analysis and ergodic theory

How & why

Yitzhak Katznelson is an Israeli-American mathematician whose work spans harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and differentiable dynamics. His book 'An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis' became a classic text and won the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 2002. A professor at Stanford University, he is an Israeli Jew, born in Jerusalem.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Harmonic analysis and ergodic theory

1934

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics