- Antoni Zygmund
Antoni Zygmund (
December 25 ,1900 –May 30 1992 ) was a Polish born American mathematician who exerted a major influence on 20th-century mathematics.Born in
Warsaw , Zygmund was professor at the University ofWilno from 1930 until 1939. During the occupation of Poland (Second World War ), he emigrated toUSA in 1940 and became professor at theMount Holyoke College inSouth Hadley . From 1945 until 1947 he was professor at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and from 1947 at theUniversity of Chicago .He was member of several scientific societies. From 1930 until 1952 member of the
Friends of Science Society (TNW), since 1946 member ofPolish Academy of Skills (PAU), since 1959 member ofPolish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and since 1961 member of theNational Academy of Science in Washington. He received theNational Medal of Science in 1986.His main interest was
harmonic analysis . He wrote a standard two-volume work "Trigonometric Series". His students includedAlberto Calderón , Paul Cohen,Nathan Fine and Elias Stein. He died inChicago .His work has had pervasive influence in many fields of mathematics, particularly in
mathematical analysis . Perhaps most important was his work with Calderón onsingular integral operator s.ee also
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* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/math/other/zygmund.htm Mount Holyoke biography]
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* [http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/kstresc.php?tom=5&wyd=10&jez= Trigonometrical series] – Zygmund's monograph on the web
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