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Marcel Riesz Born November 16, 1886
Győr, Austria-HungaryDied September 4, 1969 (aged 82)
Lund, SwedenNationality Hungarian Fields Mathematics Institutions Lund University Doctoral advisor Lipót Fejér Doctoral students Harald Cramér
Einar Carl Hille
Lars HörmanderMarcel Riesz (Hungarian: Riesz Marcell; November 16, 1886 – September 4, 1969) was a Hungarian mathematician who was born in Győr, Hungary (Austria-Hungary). He moved to Sweden in 1908 and spent the rest of his life there, dying in Lund, where he was a professor from 1926 at Lund University. He was known for work on classical analysis, on fundamental solutions of partial differential equations, on divergent series, Clifford algebras, and number theory.
Riesz was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1936.
He was the younger brother of the mathematician Frigyes Riesz.
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See also
- Riesz theorem (disambiguation)
- Riesz potential
- Riesz mean
- Bochner–Riesz mean
- Strong–Riesz mean
- Riesz function
- Riesz–Thorin theorem
Publications
- Riesz, Marcel (1988), Collected papers, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-18115-6, MR962287, http://books.google.com/books?isbn=3540181156
- Riesz, Marcel (1993) [1958], Clifford numbers and spinors, Fundamental Theories of Physics, 54, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, ISBN 978-0-7923-2299-3, MR1247961, http://www.springer.com/mathematics/book/978-3-540-18115-6
References
- Gȧrding, Lars (1970), "Marcel Riesz in memoriam", Acta Mathematica 124: x–xi, doi:10.1007/BF02394565, ISSN 0001-5962, MR0256837
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Marcel Riesz", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Riesz_Marcel.html.
- Marcel Riesz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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