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Antoni Zygmund
1900 – 1992
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryAntoni Szczepan Zygmund was a Polish-American mathematician. He worked mostly in the area of mathematical analysis, including harmonic analysis, and he is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. Zygmund was responsible for creating the Chicago school of mathematical analysis together with his doctoral student Alberto Calderón, for which he was awarded the National Medal of Science, the highest American science award, in 1986.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
December 26, 1900
Warsaw
Date of death
May 30, 1992
Chicago
Citizenship
United States · Poland
Occupations & fields
mathematicianuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Guggenheim FellowshipNational Medal of ScienceLeroy P. Steele Prizehonorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI
Notable works
Calderón–Zygmund lemmaTrigonometric SeriesPaley–Zygmund inequalityMarcinkiewicz–Zygmund inequality
- Field and occupation
- poľský matematik
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