Yakov Lazarevich Geronimus, sometimes spelled J. Geronimus (; February 6, 1898,
Rostov
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– July 17, 1984,
Kharkov
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. ) was a Russian mathematician known for contributions to
theoretical mechanics
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and the study of
orthogonal polynomials
In mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonal
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. The
Geronimus polynomials are named after him.
References
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Geronimus, Yakov Lazarevich (1898–1984)*
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National University of Kharkiv alumni
Russian mathematicians
Mathematical analysts