Cornelius Lanczos

Cornelius Lanczos
Born(1893-02-02)February 2, 1893
DiedJune 25, 1974(1974-06-25) (aged 81)
NationalityHungarian
Alma materUniversity of Budapest
University of Szeged
Known forLanczos algorithm
Lanczos tensor
Lanczos resampling
Lanczos approximation
Lanczos sigma factor
Lanczos differentiator
Lanczos–van Stockum dust
Spouse(s)Mária Erzsébet Rump (1928–1939)
Ilse Hildebrand (1954–1974)
AwardsChauvenet Prize (1960)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Theoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Freiburg
Purdue University
Boeing
Institute of Numerical Analysis
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Frankfurt University
Thesis Relation of Maxwell's Aether Equations to Functional Theory  (1921)
Doctoral advisorRudolf Ortvay
Other academic advisorsLoránd Eötvös
Lipót Fejér,
Erwin Madelung

Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos (Hungarian: Lánczos Kornél, pronounced [ˈlaːnt͡soʃ ˈkorneːl]; born as Kornél Lőwy, until 1906: Löwy (Lőwy) Kornél; February 2, 1893 – June 25, 1974) was a Hungarian-Jewish, Hungarian-American and later Hungarian-Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of The Martians.[2]

  1. ^ Lanczos, Cornelius (1958). "Linear Systems in Self-Adjoint Form". Amer. Math. Monthly. 65 (9): 665–679. doi:10.2307/2308707. JSTOR 2308707.
  2. ^ A marslakók legendája Archived 2022-04-09 at the Wayback Machine – György Marx.

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