Mathematician:Hans Lewy

Mathematician

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

Wolf Prize

Hans Lewy was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1984/85}$:

For initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.

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)

Publications

• 1928: Über die partiellen Differenzengleichungen der mathematischen Physik (Math. Ann. Vol. 100, no. 1: pp. 32 – 74) (with Richard Courant and Kurt Friedrichs)
• 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

Sources

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