Mathematician:Raphaël Salem
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Mathematician
Greek mathematician after whom are named the Salem numbers and Salem-Spencer sets.
Also worked on Fourier series.
Nationality
Greek
History
- Born: 7 November 1898 in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Died: 20 June 1963 in Paris, France
Theorems and Definitions
- Demonstrated the existence of what are now known as the Pisot-Vijayaraghavan numbers, for Charles Pisot and Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan, who worked on them
Definitions of concepts named for Raphaël Salem can be found here.
Publications
- 1944: A Remarkable Class of Algebraic Numbers. Proof of a Conjecture of Vijayaraghavan (Duke Math. J. Vol. 11: pp. 103 – 108)
- 1945: Power Series with Integral Coefficients (Duke Math. J. Vol. 12: pp. 153 – 172)
Also known as
In Greek: Ραφαέλ Σαλέμ