Mathematician:Hans Lewy
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Mathematician
German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables.
Wolf Prize
Hans Lewy was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1984/85}$:
- For initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.
Nationality
German, later American
History
- Born: 20 October 1904 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
- Died: 23 August 1988 in Berkeley, California, USA
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1928: Über die partiellen Differenzengleichungen der mathematischen Physik (Math. Ann. Vol. 100, no. 1: pp. 32 – 74) (with Richard Courant and Kurt Friedrichs)
- 1929: Neuer Beweis des analytischen Charakters der Lösungen elliptischer Differentialgleichungen
- 1935: A priori limitations for solutions of Monge-Ampère equations
- 1937: A priori limitations for solutions of Monge-Ampère equations
- 1938: On differential geometry in the large: Minkowski's problem
- 1946: Water waves on sloping beaches
- 1948: The dock problem (with Kurt Friedrichs)
- 1951: On minimal surfaces with partially free boundary
- 1957: An example of a smooth linear partial differential equation without solution