Wintner

Aurel Freidrich Wintner

Born: 8 April 1903 in Hungary
Died: 15 Jan 1958

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Aurel Wintner published the first proofs of the basic facts about Hilbert spaces in 1929. In 1930 he married Hölder's daughter and, in the same year, took up a post in the USA where he remained until his death.

In 1944 he became editor of the American Journal of Mathematics . He published on analysis, number theory, differential equations and probability (with several joint papers with Norbert Wiener).

Wintner (along with Poincaré and George Birkhoff) placed celestial mechanics on a more sound mathematical basis. These innovators were more concerned with the underlying theory, less concerned with quantitatively accurate prediction of celestial body motion.

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  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography 
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