Jacob David Tamarkin was a Russian-American mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis.
10 Facts About Jacob Tamarkin
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Jacob Tamarkin's father, David Tamarkin, was a physician and his mother, Sophie Krassilschikov, was from a family of a landowner.
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Jacob Tamarkin moved to St Petersburg as a child and grew up there.
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Jacob Tamarkin studied in St Petersburg University where he defended his dissertation in 1917.
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In 1927, Jacob Tamarkin received a professorship at Brown University where he remained until his retirement in 1945, after suffering a heart attack.
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Jacob Tamarkin died later that year in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC.
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Jacob Tamarkin's work spanned a number of areas, including number theory, integral equations, Fourier series, complex analysis, moment problem, boundary value problem and differential equations.
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Jacob Tamarkin was a proponent and a founding co-editor of the Mathematical Reviews, together with Otto Neugebauer and William Feller.
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Jacob Tamarkin had over twenty doctoral students at Brown, including Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, Nelson Dunford, George Forsythe, Margaret Gurney and Derrick Lehmer.
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Jacob Tamarkin was married to Helene Weichardt who came from a wealthy family of German ancestry.