Hans Lewy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2008)

Hans Lewy in 1975
(photo by George Bergman)

Hans Lewy (October 20, 1904 – August 23, 1988) was an American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations.

He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He was awarded a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986.

[edit] See also

Lewy's example

[edit] External links

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Hans Lewy", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

v • d • e Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Israel Gelfand/Carl L. Siegel (1978) · Jean Leray/André Weil (1979) · Henri Cartan/Andrey Kolmogorov (1980) · Lars Ahlfors/Oscar Zariski (1981) · Hassler Whitney/Mark Grigoryevich Krein (1982) · Shiing-Shen Chern/Paul Erdős (1983/4) · Kunihiko Kodaira/Hans Lewy (1984/5) · Samuel Eilenberg/Atle Selberg (1986) · Kiyoshi Itō/Peter Lax (1987) · Friedrich Hirzebruch/Lars Hörmander (1988) · Alberto Calderón/John Milnor (1989) · Ennio de Giorgi/Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1990) · Lennart Carleson/John G. Thompson (1992) · Mikhail Gromov/Jacques Tits (1993) · Jürgen Moser (1994/5) · Robert Langlands/Andrew Wiles (1995/6) · Joseph Keller/Yakov G. Sinai (1996/7) · László Lovász/Elias M. Stein (1999) · Raoul Bott/Jean-Pierre Serre (2000) · Vladimir Arnold/Saharon Shelah (2001) · Mikio Sato/John Tate (2002/3) · Grigory Margulis/Sergei Petrovich Novikov (2005) · Stephen Smale/Hillel Furstenberg (2006/7) · Pierre Deligne/Phillip A. Griffiths/David B. Mumford (2008)

Agriculture · Arts · Chemistry · Mathematics · Medicine · Physics