Naum Akhiezer

Naum Akhiezer
Naum Ilyich Akhiezer
Born(1901-03-06)6 March 1901
Died3 June 1980(1980-06-03) (aged 79)
NationalityUSSR
Alma materKyiv Institute of Public Education
Known forAkhiezer's theorem
Achieser–Zolotarev filter
Akhiezer–Krein–Favard theorem
Baker–Akhiezer function
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsKharkov State University, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Kharkiv Aviation Institute
Doctoral advisorDmitry Grave
Doctoral studentsBoris Levitan

Naum Ilyich Akhiezer (Ukrainian: Нау́м Іллі́ч Ахіє́зер; Russian: Нау́м Ильи́ч Ахие́зер; 6 March 1901 – 3 June 1980) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in approximation theory and the theory of differential and integral operators.[1][2][3] He is also known as the author of classical books on various subjects in analysis, and for his work on the history of mathematics. He is the brother of the theoretical physicist Aleksandr Akhiezer.

  1. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Naum Akhiezer", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ NAUM IL’ICH AKHIEZER (ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH), by V. A. Marchenko, Yu. A. Mitropol’skii, A. V. Pogorelov, A. M. Samoilenko, I. V. Skrypnik, and E. Ya. Khruslov (restricted access)
  3. ^ Lyubich, Yu.I. (1995). "Naum Ilʹich Akhiezer". J. Math. Sci. 76 (4): 2441–2451. doi:10.1007/BF02364901. S2CID 189874245.