Mathematician:Hans Lewy

German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables.

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

 * Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy Condition (with Richard Courant and Kurt Friedrichs)

Books and Papers

 * 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
 * 1957: An example of a smooth linear partial differential equation without solution