Salem

Raphaël Salem

Born: 7 Nov 1898 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki), Greece
Died: 20 June 1963 in Paris, France

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Salem was born in Greece to Jewish parents of Spanish origin but he went to France at the age of 15 and studied at the Sorbonne under Hadamard. Then he went into banking, although he worked on Fourier series whenever possible. At the start of the War Salem went to England, then to the USA where he worked with Norbert Wiener and Zygmund (with whom he wrote joint papers). He accepted a chair at the Sorbonne in 1955.

Salem introduced the idea of a random measure into harmonic analysis. This began an area of research which is very active today.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Oeuvres mathématique de Raphaël Salem (Paris, 1967). 
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