Yitzhak Katznelson (; born 1934) is an Israeli mathematician. Katznelson was born in

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. He received his doctoral degree from the

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in 1956. He is a professor of mathematics at

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. He is the author of ''An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis'', which won the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 2002. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-01-27.

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''An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis''
1934 births Living people Israeli mathematicians Jewish American scientists Mathematical analysts Stanford University Department of Mathematics faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society University of Paris alumni {{Asia-mathematician-stub