Szolem Mandelbrojt

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name = Szolem Mandelbrojt


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caption = Szolem Mandelbrojt
birth_date = birth date|1899|1|10|df=y
birth_place = Warsaw, Poland
death_date = 1983
death_place = Paris, France
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nationality = descent
field = Mathematician
work_institution = Rice University
Collège de France
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doctoral_advisor = Jacques Hadamard
doctoral_students = Paul Malliavin
Shmuel Agmon
Hugh Brunk
Vincent Cowling
John Gergen
Guy Johnson, Jr.
Jean-Pierre Kahane
Yitzhak Katznelson
Hans Reiter
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footnotes = He is the uncle of Benoît Mandelbrot.

Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899 – 1983) was a Jewish-Polish mathematician. He worked mainly in classical analysis; he was a student of Jacques Hadamard, and became Hadamard's successor as Professor at the Collège de France.

He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, taking part in some of its initial gatherings. In fact his direction was very different, as his publications show, with an interest in Dirichlet series, lacunary series, entire functions and other major topics in complex analysis and harmonic analysis. He is more accurately described as a follower of G. H. Hardy, and can be placed in the group containing Norbert Wiener and Torsten Carleman who were moderate modernisers of classical Fourier analysis. Agmon Shmuel was one of his students.

During World War II he was in the United States, in Houston at the Rice Institute from 1940, being one of many French scientists helped by the programme of Louis Rapkine (1904-1948) after the fall of France in June.

Benoît Mandelbrot is his nephew, and Jean-Pierre Kahane one of his students.

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NAME= Mandelbrojt, Szolem
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH= 10 Jan, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH= Warsaw, Poland
DATE OF DEATH= 1983
PLACE OF DEATH= Paris, France