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Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century. [2] [3] Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equations .
Louis Nirenberg (born February 28, 1925, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada—died January 26, 2020, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Canadian-born American mathematician who was noted for his work in analysis, with an emphasis on partial differential equations. In 2015 he was a recipient (with John F. Nash, Jr.) of the Abel Prize.
Jan 26, 2020 · Biography. Louis Nirenberg's father was a teacher of Hebrew. Louis went to a Hebrew school but he did not want to learn Hebrew. His father tried to teach him but, meeting resistance, thought that a friend might have more success giving him private lessons. This friend loved mathematical puzzles and so most of the lessons were spent solving ...
Jan 31, 2020 · Louis Nirenberg, a mathematician who explored the complexities of equations commonly used by physicists and engineers, and who shared the 2015 Abel Prize, a top math award modeled after the Nobels ...
Feb 17, 2020 · Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020) Virtuoso mathematician who transformed the study of partial differential equations. After the Second World War, mathematics in the United States flourished owing to a ...
- Brit Shields, Michael J. Barany
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May 21, 2021 · Remembering Louis Nirenberg and his mathematics. The article is dedicated to recalling the life and mathematics of Louis Nirenberg, a distinguished Canadian mathematician who recently died in New York, where he lived. An emblematic figure of Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in the last century, he was awarded the Abel Prize in 2015.
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We bid farewell to the mathematician Louis Nirenberg who passed away this January at the age of 94. Nirenberg was acknowledged with many awards throughout his career, sharing the Abel Prize in 2015 with John Nash, “for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis.”
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