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Michael (Mihály) Fekete (; 19 July 1886 – 13 May 1957) was a Hungarian- Israeli
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.


Biography

Michael Fekete was born in Zenta,
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,
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). He received his
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in 1909 from the
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(later renamed Eötvös Loránd University). He studied under
Lipót Fejér Lipót Fejér (or Leopold Fejér, ; 9 February 1880 – 15 October 1959) was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage. Fejér was born Leopold Weisz, and changed to the Hungarian name Fejér around 1900. Biography He was born in Pécs, Au ...
. After completing his PhD he switched to
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, which was considered a mathematics hub. In 1914, he returned to the University of Budapest, where he attained the title of
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. Fekete also worked as a private math tutor. Among his students was János Neumann. In 1922, Fekete published a paper together with Neumann on extremal polynomials, which was Neumann's first
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. Fekete dedicated the majority of his scientific work to the transfinite diameter. In 1928 Fekete immigrated to
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and was among the first instructors of the Institute of Mathematics at the
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of
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. In 1929 he was promoted to
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, and eventually headed the institute, succeeding
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and
Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel Abraham Fraenkel (; 17 February, 1891 – 15 October, 1965) was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic s ...
. He later became the
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of
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, and between the years 1946–1948 he was
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. Among his students were
Aryeh Dvoretzky Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky (, ; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. He was t ...
and Michael Bahir Maschler.


Awards and recognition

In 1955, Fekete was awarded the
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for
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.


See also

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Fekete problem In mathematics, the Fekete problem is, given a natural number ''N'' and a real ''s'' ≥ 0, to find the points ''x''1,...,''x'N'' on the 2-sphere for which the ''s''-energy, defined by : \sum_ \, x_i - x_j \, ^ for ''s'' >&nbs ...
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Fekete polynomial In mathematics, a Fekete polynomial is a polynomial :f_p(t):=\sum_^ \left (\frac\right )t^a\, where \left(\frac\right)\, is the Legendre symbol modulo some integer ''p'' > 1. These polynomials were known in nineteenth-century st ...
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Fekete–Szegő inequality In mathematics, the Fekete–Szegő inequality is an inequality for the coefficients of univalent analytic functions In mathematics, an analytic function is a function that is locally given by a convergent power series. There exist both rea ...
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Fekete's lemma In mathematics, subadditivity is a property of a function that states, roughly, that evaluating the function for the sum of two elements of the domain always returns something less than or equal to the sum of the function's values at each element ...
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Fekete constant In mathematics, the conformal radius is a way to measure the size of a simply connected planar domain ''D'' viewed from a point ''z'' in it. As opposed to notions using Euclidean distance (say, the radius of the largest inscribed disk with center '' ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fekete, Michael Israeli mathematicians Hungarian emigrants to Israel Hungarian Jews People from Senta Jews from Mandatory Palestine Israeli Jews Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Israel Prize in exact science recipients Israel Prize in exact science recipients who were mathematicians 1886 births 1957 deaths Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary Burials at Har HaMenuchot