biography
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| lived:
| (1888–1972)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Lubliniec, S Poland (formerly Lublinitz, Germany). He studied at Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia), Zürich, and (as a pupil of David Hilbert) Göttingen universities, where he became professor in 1920, founding the Mathematics Institute in 1929. In 1933 he was forced by the Nazis to retire, and after a year at Cambridge he went to the USA, where he became professor at New York University (1934–58), and director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (later the Courant Research Institute) (1953–8). He worked in applied analysis, particularly in partial differential equations and the Dirichlet problem. |
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