Akhiezer

Naum Il'ich Akhiezer

Born: 6 March 1901 in Cherikov, Byelorussia
Died: 3 June 1980 in Kharkov, USSR

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Naum Akhiezer studied at Kiev. His main work was on approximation theory, building on the results of Chebyshev, Zolotarev and Markov. His important book Theory of Approximation was awarded the Chebyshev Prize.

Akhiezer's later work was on the theory of moments and he did joint work with Sergi Bernstein on completeness of sets of polynomials. He wrote 130 papers and 8 books, one of which was the important Theory of Operators in Hilbert Space .

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. V A Marchenko, Nonlinear equations and operator algebra (Dordrecht and Boston, 1988).
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