Harry Hochstadt

Harry Hochstadt (born September 7, 1925 in Vienna ; † May 4, 2009 ) was an Austrian-American mathematician who worked in the field of analysis .

Life

Hochstadt's parents came from Bukovina . His mother and her parents came to Vienna from Chernivtsi in 1916 , and his father moved from Iacobeni ( Suceava district ) to Vienna in 1914 , where they married (working as bank clerks and accountants) in 1922. Harry Hochstadt grew up in Vienna's 7th and 8th district and attended a grammar school there.

After Austria's annexation in 1938, the Jewish family fled to Paris in September 1938 and then emigrated to the USA, where they arrived in New York on December 1, 1938. Harry Hochstadt finished school there, was drafted into the army in 1943 during World War II, trained in the “Army Specialized Training Program” and then deployed as a soldier in Europe.

After the war he studied at Cooper Union University (chemical engineer, bachelor's degree in 1949), and then mathematics at the Courant Institute (master's degree in 1950, doctorate in 1956). His doctoral supervisor was Wilhelm Magnus .

After a brief activity as an engineer, Harry Hochstadt was professor of mathematics at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University from 1957 and headed the mathematics institute there from 1963 to 1990. In addition to four books, he was the author of more than 100 mathematical specialist articles. He was married to Pearl Schwartzberg and had two children.

Books

• Special functions of mathematical physics , Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1961
• Differential equations, A modern approach , Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1964
• The functions of mathematical physics , Wiley, 1971
• Integral equations , Wiley, 1973

Article (selection)

• Wilhelm Magnus, Applied mathematician , in: Cont. Math. 169 , 365-372, 1994

Web links

• Interview, Center for Jewish History , 2004
• NYU-Polytechnic Alumni New, 36 (3) , 2009