Viktor Iossifowitsch Levin

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Viktor Iossifowitsch Lewin ( Russian Виктор Иосифович Левин , also transcribed Victor Levin ; born December 1, 1909 in Mogilev , † 1986 ) was a Soviet mathematician.

life and work

From: Annual report of DMV 44 , 262–265, 1934

Viktor Lewin's father was the engineer Joseph (Iossif) Lewin. The family moved from Mogilev to Moscow , where Joseph Levin became a university professor. Viktor Lewin finished school in Moscow in 1925 after the 9th grade and moved to Berlin in 1927 , where he graduated from high school in 1928. There he first studied shipbuilding and civil engineering at the technical university , from 1929/30 mathematics and physics (diploma in 1932, doctorate in 1933 with Georg Hamel and Rothe).

In 1933 Lewin emigrated to Great Britain to study with GH Hardy , then to Ahmedabad (British India) in 1934 , but returned to Berlin in 1936 and to the Soviet Union in 1938. There he became a lecturer at the Moscow Energy Institute and worked there as a professor after his habilitation in 1939.

He then taught at the Moscow State Aviation Institute , the Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys and, from 1962, at the State Pedagogical University .

He wrote several textbooks on analysis and mathematical physics and translated English textbooks into Russian (e.g. Inequalities by Hardy, Polya and Littlewood).

Lewin was the author of about 40 scientific articles. A result published in Russian from 1938 was rediscovered in 1984 and is now called the Levin-Cochran-Lee inequality.

Fonts

  • About the coefficient sums of some classes of power series , Math. Zeitschrift 38 , 565-590, 1934 (doctoral thesis, online )

literature

  • IE Bazilevich, BM Bolotovskii, EK Godunova, AI Markushevich: Wiktor Lewin (On his 60th birthday) , Uspekhi Mat. Nauk (Russ. Math. Surv.) 25 , 205-210, 1970 ( online ).
  • Aleksandra Čižmešija, Josip Pečarić, Ivan Perić: Mixed means and inequalities of Hardy and Levin-Cochran-Lee type for multidimensional balls , Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 , 2543-2552, 2000 ( online ; PDF; 188 kB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It is unclear whether it is Erich Rothe or Rudolf Rothe .
  2. ↑ See the 2007 interview with Mark Vishik (→ Weblinks). Wiktor Lewin is also mentioned in the introduction to Hardy's book Inequalities (written in 1934 with Polya and Littlewood ).
  3. ↑ Similar to Richard Rado .
  4. ↑ See article by Čižmešija / Pečarić / Perić.
personal data
SURNAME Lewin, Viktor Iossifowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Левин, Виктор Иосифович (Russian); Levin, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Mogilev
DATE OF DEATH 1986