Abraham Haskel Taub

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name = Abraham Haskel Taub


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death_date = death date|1999|8|9|mf=y
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field = Mathematics
Physics
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known_for = Taub Adiabat
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Abraham Haskel Taub (February 1, 1911 – August 9, 1999) was a distinguished American mathematician and physicist, well known for his important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations. He is perhaps best known for a 1948 paper dealing with relativistic shock waves, in which he introduced a relativistic generalization of the "Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions" across a shock, which is now known as the "Taub Adiabat".

Taub earned his doctorate at Princeton University in 1935, under the direction of the prominent relativist Howard Percy Robertson. At Princeton, Taub was also influenced by Oswald Veblen.

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* [http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmcxtaub.htm Biography of Taub at Princeton]
* [http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmc14.htm Interview of Taub and others about their experiences at Princeton]

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NAME= Taub, Abraham Haskel
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= American mathematician, physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= February 1, 1911
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DATE OF DEATH= August 9, 1999
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