Harry Dym

Harry Dym
הארי דים
Born(1938-01-26)January 26, 1938
DiedJuly 18, 2024(2024-07-18) (aged 86)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forDym equation
RelativesClive Dym (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsWeizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral advisorHenry McKean

Harry Dym (January 26, 1938 – July 18, 2024) was an Israeli-born American mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Dym's research interests included operator theory, interpolation theory, and inverse problems.

Dym earned his Ph.D. in 1965 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Henry McKean.[1] He introduced the Dym equation, which bears his name.[2]

Dym died on July 18, 2024, at the age of 86.[3][4]

  1. ^ Harry Dym at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Scott, Alwyn (2013), Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, Routledge, p. 859, ISBN 9781135455583.
  3. ^ "IN MEMORIAM - Prof. Harry Dym | WeizmannCompass". www.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  4. ^ Ekhad, Shalosh B.; Zeilberger, Doron (2 August 2024). "Graphic and Symbolic Experiments with the Harry Dym Equation" (PDF). math.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2024.