1. Szolem Mandelbrojt was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis.
11 Facts About Szolem Mandelbrojt
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Szolem Mandelbrojt was a professor at the College de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics and Celestial Mechanics.
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Szolem Mandelbrojt was born on 10 January 1899 in Warsaw, Poland into a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent.
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Szolem Mandelbrojt was initially educated in Warsaw, then in 1919 he moved to Kharkov, Ukraine and spent a year as a student of the Russian mathematician Sergei Bernstein.
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In 1924 Mandelbrojt was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in the United States.
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In December 1934 Szolem Mandelbrojt co-founded the Nicolas Bourbaki group of mathematicians, of which he was a member until World War II.
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Szolem Mandelbrojt succeeded Hadamard at College de France in 1938 and took up the Chair of Analytical Mechanics and Celestial Mechanics.
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Szolem Mandelbrojt helped several members of his family emigrate from Poland to France in 1936.
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In 1939 he fought for France when the country was invaded by the Nazis, then in 1940, along with many scientists helped by Louis Rapkine and the Rockefeller Foundation, Szolem Mandelbrojt relocated to the United States, taking up a position at the Rice Institute.
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In 1945 Szolem Mandelbrojt moved back to France and resumed his professional activities at College de France, where he remained until his retirement in 1972.
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Szolem Mandelbrojt died at the age of 84 in Paris, France, on 23 September 1983.