Antoni Zygmund
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| Born | December 25, 1900 Warsaw, Congress Poland |
| Died | May 30, 1992 (aged 91) Chicago, Illinois |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Stefan Batory University |
| Alma mater | Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Doctoral advisor | Aleksander Rajchman Stefan Mazurkiewicz |
| Doctoral students | Alberto Calderón Leonard Berkovitz Elias M. Stein Paul Cohen Eugene Fabes |
| Known for | Singular integral operators |
Antoni Zygmund (December 25, 1900 – May 30, 1992) was a Polish-born American mathematician.
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[edit] Life
Born in Warsaw, Zygmund obtained his PhD from Warsaw University (1923) and became a professor at Stefan Batory University at Wilno (1930–39). In 1940, during the World War II occupation of Poland, he emigrated to the United States and became a professor at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. From 1945 until 1947 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and from 1947 at the University of Chicago.
He was a member of several scientific societies. From 1930 until 1952 he was a member of the Polish Society of Friends of Science (TNW), from 1946 a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU), from 1959 a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), and from 1961 a member of the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C.. In 1986 he received the National Medal of Science.
His main interest was harmonic analysis. He wrote a standard two-volume work Trigonometric Series. His students included Alberto Calderón, Paul Cohen, Nathan Fine, Józef Marcinkiewicz, Victor L. Shapiro, and Elias Stein. He died in Chicago.
His work has had a pervasive influence in many fields of mathematics, particularly in mathematical analysis. He wrote over 6 books.[citation needed] Perhaps most important was his work with Calderón on singular integral operators.
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- Kazimierz Kuratowski, A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1980, ISBN 0-08-023046-6.
- Zygmund, A. (2002) [1935], Trigonometric series. Vol. I, II, Cambridge Mathematical Library (3rd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-89053-3, MR1963498, http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/kstresc.php?wyd=10&tom=5&jez=en
[edit] External links
- Antoni Zygmund at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Mount Holyoke biography
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Antoni Zygmund", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zygmund.html.
