Mathematician:Raphaël Salem

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

 * Salem Constant
 * Salem Number
 * Salem-Spencer Set (with )


 * Demonstrated the existence of what are now known as the Pisot-Vijayaraghavan numbers, for and, who worked on them

Also known as
In Greek: Ραφαέλ Σαλέμ