Yevgeny Yakovlevich Remes

Yevgeni Jakowlevich Remes ( Russian Евгений Яковлевич Ремез ; English transcription Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez; born February 17, 1896 in Mszislau , Russian Empire , today Belarus ; † August 31, 1975 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Soviet mathematician . The Remez algorithm (for solving Chebyshev approximation using polynomials) is named after him.

Remes graduated from high school in Mszislau in 1916 with honors and began his studies of mathematics and mathematical physics at the University of Kiev (then "Institute for Popular Education"), which he graduated in 1924. From then on he taught analysis , differential equations and differential geometry at the University of Kiev and at the Mechanical Institute of the Technical University of Kiev , and prepared for his doctorate on " Methods of numerical integration of differential equations with an exact error estimate ", which was accepted in 1929. In 1936 he received his habilitation (Russian PhD).

He mainly worked on approximation theory (for example Remez algorithm ), the constructive function theory , and he also built on the work of Pafnuti Lwowitsch Chebyshev , on whose mathematical work he also published. He lived in Kiev until his death and taught at many institutes there; including the Mining Institute, the Pedagogical Institute and the Geological Institute. From 1939 he received a professorship at the newly founded Institute for Mathematics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and became its member.

literature

• Elliot Ward Cheney: Introduction to Approximation Theory , ISBN 978-0-8218-1374-4 , page 95-100: Description of two algorithms by Remes for solving Chebyshev approximation by polynomials

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .