Albert Edrei
Albert Edrei (born November 26, 1914 in Alexandria , Egypt , † April 29, 1998 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American mathematician .
Edrei first began studying engineering at the ETH Zurich , but then switched to mathematics and physics. In 1939 he received his doctorate from the ETH, his supervisor was George Pólya . During the Second World War he was in the French army and from 1945 to 1949 he was a lecturer at the University of Alexandria . From 1949 to 1952 he was at the universities of Saskatchewan and Colorado . Then he moved to Syracuse University . There he became Professor in 1956 and Distinguished Professor in 1971.
One focus of Edrei's work was the Nevanlinnasche value distribution theory . Much of his work on this topic is written together with Wolfgang Fuchs . Edrei also worked on various other topics of function theory , such as Padé approximation .
In 1950 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Cambridge (Massachusetts) .
literature
- Professor Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs. Professor Albert Edrei. Complex Variables, Theory and Application, Volume 13 (1989), Issues 1-2, pp. I-xxiv. Special issue in honor of A. Edrei and WHJ Fuchs with short biographies.
Web links
- Biography of Philip T. Church at Syracuse University
- Literature by and about Albert Edrei in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation in the Research Collection, doi : 10.3929 / ethz-a-000104602 ; with curriculum vitae (until 1938)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Edrei, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexandria , Egypt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1998 |
| Place of death | Princeton , New Jersey |