Stefan Bergman

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Stefan Bergman (born May 5, 1895 in Częstochowa in Poland , † June 6, 1977 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American mathematician who mainly worked in function theory and potential theory.

Career

Bergman was born in Congress Poland and studied with Richard von Mises in Berlin , where he dealt with applications of potential theory in electrical engineering. In 1921 he received his doctorate “On the development of the harmonic functions of the plane and space according to orthogonal functions”. The "Bergman core function" (Bergman core) introduced by him in 1922 and the application z. B. Conformal map theory and partial differential equation theory should be his main field of work for the rest of his career. In 1933 he lost his post at the university as a Jew. In 1937 he first went to the USSR , then via Paris in 1939 to the USA , where he first went to Brown University through von Mises , in 1945 briefly to von Mises to Harvard and then to Stanford University , where he stayed until his retirement. He still saw how its core function became an important tool in the theory of the functions of several complex variables. In several monographs, he also applied his methods to problems in physics (e.g. hydrodynamics and supersonic flows in the 1940s).

In addition to the Bergman kernel, the “Bergman metric” defined by such a kernel and the “Bergman spaces” (spaces in a domain of holomorphic functions for which the integral of the absolute square of the function is finite) are named after him.

In 1951 Bergmann was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( On meromorphic functions of several complex variables ).

Winner of the Stefan Bergman Prize

The Stefan Bergman Prize ( English Stefan Bergman Prize ) is awarded annually by the American Mathematical Society for work in two main areas of Bergman's work: the theory of the Bergman kernel with applications in real and complex analysis and functional theory methods in the theory of partial differential equations elliptic Type with special reference to Bergman's operator method. Prize winners are:

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  1. ↑ he wrote himself Bergmann in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s
  2. ↑ List of the award winners
  3. ^ American Mathematical Society. In: ams.org. February 5, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Laureates 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bergman, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Częstochowa , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1977
Place of death Palo Alto