Radó

Tibor Radó

Born: 2 June 1895 in Budapest, Hungary
Died: 12 Dec 1965 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA

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Radó enlisted in 1915 and fought on the Russian front before being captured and imprisoned for four years. While he was in prison, the only books he had to read were on mathematics. After his release he went to Szeged University, taking a Ph.D. under Riesz. In 1929 he went to the USA and held posts at Harvard and Rice before being appointed to a chair at Ohio State University.

Radó worked on conformal mappings, real analysis, calculus of variations, partial differential equations, integration theory and topology. He worked on the Plateau Problem and found the solution independently of Douglas. He also worked on surface measure continuing the work of Lebesgue and Riesz.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. A Mambriana, Una visione dell'opera scientifica di Tibor Radó, Rivista di matematica delle Università di Parma I (1950), 239-273.
  3. T M Rassias (ed.), The Problem of Plateau - A tribute to Jesse Douglas and Tibor Radó (Singapore, 1992). 
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