biography
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| (1899–1982)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Kraków, Poland (formerly, Austria-Hungary). Fleeing from Nazism, he settled at Princeton University (1933). A pioneer in abstract harmonic analysis, his research preceded the theory of distributions. A noted teacher, he chaired the Rice University Mathematics Department (1969–76) and founded an interdisciplinary institute for the history of ideas. |
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