Leopoldo Nachbin (7 January 1922 – 3 April 1993) was a
Jewish-Brazilian mathematician who dealt with
topology, and
harmonic analysis
Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of Function (mathematics), functions or signals as the Superposition principle, superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fo ...
.
Nachbin was born in
Recife, and is best known for
Nachbin's theorem. He died, aged 71, in
Rio de Janeiro.
Nachbin was a Ph.D. student of
Laurent Schwartz.
His Ph.D. students include
Francisco Antônio Dória
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...
and
Seán Dineen
Seán Dineen (born February 1944) is an Irish mathematician specialising in complex analysis. His academic career was spent, in the main, at University College Dublin (UCD) where he was Professor of Mathematics, serving as Head of Department and ...
.
He was an
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) of 1962 in Stockholm.
[International Mathematical Union (IMU) ]
"ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897"
''mathunion.org''. Retrieved on 8 July 2017.
Bibliography
*''Topology and Order'' (Krieger Pub. Co., 1965)
*''Introdução à Álgebra'' (McGraw-Hill, 1971, in Portuguese)
References
* J. Horváth.
ttps://books.google.com/books?id=cAIMuQAACAAJ The life and works of Leopoldo Nachbin
External links
*
Leopoldo Nachbin, 1922-1993Os trabalhos de Leopoldo Nachbin (1922-1993), by Jorge Mujica, in Portuguese, free translation: "The Works of Leopoldo Nachbin (1922-1993)"
20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
1922 births
1993 deaths
Brazilian Jews
Topologists
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers
Mathematical analysts
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