A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century I

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Horváth, János (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies, 14
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Geometry.; Probabilities.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History of Science.; Analysis.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.

A glorious period of Hungarian mathematics started in 1900 when Lipót Fejér discovered the summability of Fourier series.This was followed by the discoveries of his disciples in Fourier analysis and in the theory of analytic functions. At the same time Frederic (Frigyes) Riesz created functional ana...