Mathematician:Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin

Mathematician

Russian mathematician best known for the Gershgorin Circle Theorem.

Nationality

Russian

History

• Born: 24 August 1901 in Pruzhany, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
• Died: 30 May 1933 in Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia)

Theorems and Definitions

• Gershgorin Circle Theorem

Publications

• 1931: Über die Abgrenzung der Eigenwerte einer Matrix (Akad. Nauk. USSR Otd. Fiz.-Mat. Nauk Vol. 6: pp. 749 – 754)

Also known as

In Russian: Семён Аронович Гершгорин

His name can be transliterated in several different ways.

His first name is often written as:

Semën or Semen

His patronymic is sometimes written as:

Aranovič, Aronivič or Aronovich

His family name appears as:

Geršagorin, Geršgorin, Gerschgorin, Gerschgoren or Gerszgorin, and from the Yiddish spelling הירשהאָרן as Hirshhorn or Hirschhorn.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive