Jakob Davidowitsch Tamarkin
Jacob Tamarkin (English: Jacob David Tamarkin * June 28 . Jul / 10. July 1888 . Greg in Chernigov , Russian empire ; † 18th November 1945 in Bethesda (Maryland) ) a Russian- was American mathematician .
Jakob Davidowitsch Tamarkin studied mathematics at the State University of Saint Petersburg from 1906 and worked there from 1910 to 1917 as a lecturer at the university, the electrical engineering school and the transport college. As early as 1906 he published a paper on number theory with Alexander Friedmann , but under the influence of WA Steklow he turned to the boundary value problems of the differential equations of mathematical physics . In 1917 he received his doctorate under Andrei Markow and was appointed professor at all three universities. From 1920 to 1922 he was also a professor in Perm . Dissatisfied with the new political situation afterAssumption of power by the Bolsheviks , Tamarkin fled to the United States in 1925 , where he was initially at Dartmouth College . From 1927 he taught at Brown University , where he became an associate professor in 1928 and a professor in 1940. In 1928 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1940 to 1944 he was the managing editor of Mathematical Reviews . On November 18, 1945, he died of a heart attack while on convalescence in Bethesda, Maryland.
Tamarkin's main area of work was the theory of differential equations , but also many other areas of analysis such as functional analysis , summation methods of series, Fourier transformation , zero distribution of whole functions, integral equations , numerical methods.
His doctoral students included Nelson Dunford , George Elmer Forsythe, and Derrick Henry Lehmer .
literature
- Gottwald, Illgauds, Schlote: Lexicon of important mathematicians. BI, Leipzig 1990.
- Einar Hille : Jacob David Tamarkin - his life and work. (PDF file; 2.0 MB) Bull. AMS 53 (1947), No. 5, pp. 440-457.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Jakob Davidowitsch Tamarkin. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Brown University: Jacob David Tamarkin
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tamarkin, Jakob Davidowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tamarkin, Jacob David (English name); Тамаркин, Яков Давидович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernigov |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1945 |
| Place of death | Bethesda, Maryland |