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 Donald Clayton Spencer)

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

Definitions of concepts named for Raphaël Salem can be found here.

Publications

• 1944: A Remarkable Class of Algebraic Numbers. Proof of a Conjecture of Vijayaraghavan (Duke Math. J. Vol. 11: pp. 103 – 108)
• 1945: Power Series with Integral Coefficients (Duke Math. J. Vol. 12: pp. 153 – 172)

Also known as

In Greek: Ραφαέλ Σαλέμ

Sources

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