Mathematician:Gábor Szegő

Mathematician

Hungarian mathematician best known nowadays for his collaborations with George Pólya.

Nationality

Hungarian

History

• Born: 20 Jan 1895, Kunhegyes, Hungary
• Died: 7 Aug 1985, Palo Alto, California USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Szegő Kernel
• Szegő Polynomial
• Szegő Recurrence
• Rogers-Szegő Polynomial (with Leonard James Rogers)

• Szegő Inequality
• Szegő Theorem
• Szegő's Limit Formula

• Fekete-Szegő Inequality (with Michael Fekete)
• Grace-Walsh-Szegő Coincidence Theorem (with John Hilton Grace and Joseph Leonard Walsh)

Results named for Gábor Szegő can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Gábor Szegő can be found here.

Publications

• 1925: Problems and Theorems in Analysis I (with George Pólya)
  • 1972: Problems and Theorems in Analysis I, Eng. ed. (with George Pólya, translated by Dorothée Aeppli)

• 1925: Problems and Theorems in Analysis II (with George Pólya)
  • 1976: Problems and Theorems in Analysis II, Eng. ed. (with George Pólya, translated by C.E. Billigheimer)

• 1939: Orthogonal Polynomials
• 1951: Isoperimetric problems in mathematical physics (with George Pólya)
• 1958: Toeplitz forms and their applications (with Ulf Grenander)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Gábor Szegő": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive