1. Hans Lewy was an American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables.
14 Facts About Hans Lewy
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Hans Lewy began his studies at the University of Gottingen in 1922, after being advised to avoid the more local University of Breslau because it was too old-fashioned, supporting himself during the Weimar hyperinflation by a side job doing railroad track maintenance.
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Hans Lewy earned his doctorate in 1926, at which time he and his friend Kurt Otto Friedrichs both became assistants to Courant and privatdozents at Gottingen.
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The famous Courant-Friedrichs-Hans Lewy condition originated from that time in 1928.
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At the recommendation of Courant, Hans Lewy was granted a Rockefeller Fellowship, which he used in 1929 to travel to Rome and study algebraic geometry with Tullio Levi-Civita and Federigo Enriques, and then in 1930 to travel to Paris, where he attended the seminar of Jacques Hadamard.
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Hans Lewy was offered a position in Madrid, but declined it, fearing for the future there under Francisco Franco.
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Hans Lewy revisited Italy and France, but then at the invitation of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars and with the assistance of Hadamard found a two-year position in America at Brown University.
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In 1950, Hans Lewy was fired from Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath.
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Hans Lewy taught at Harvard University and Stanford University in 1952 and 1953 before being reinstated by the California Supreme Court case Tolman v Underhill.
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Hans Lewy retired from Berkeley in 1972, and in 1973 became one of two Ordway Professors of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.
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Hans Lewy is known for his contributions to partial differential equations.
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Hans Lewy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1964, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Hans Lewy became a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1972.
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Hans Lewy was awarded a Leroy P Steele Prize in 1979, and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986 for his work on partial differential equations.