Stefan Bergman

Stefan Bergman
Bergman in Zürich, 1932
Born	(1895-05-05)May 5, 1895 Częstochowa, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	June 6, 1977(1977-06-06) (aged 82) Palo Alto, California, USA
Education	University of Vienna University of Berlin
Known for	Bergman kernel Bergman metric Bergman space
Spouse	Adele Adlersberg
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Berlin Tomsk State University MIT Yeshiva University Brown University Stanford University
Thesis	Über die Entwicklung der harmonischen Funktionen der Ebene und des Raumes nach Orthogonalfunktionen  (1922)
Doctoral advisor	Richard von Mises
Doctoral students	Michael Maschler

Stefan Bergman (5 May 1895 – 6 June 1977) was a Poland-born American mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is known for the kernel function he discovered in 1922 at University of Berlin. This function is now known as the Bergman kernel. Bergman taught for many years at Stanford University.^[1]