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List of Jewish mathematicians
This list of Jewish mathematicians includes mathematicians and statisticians who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power in Germany, one-third of all mathematics professors in the country were Jewish, while Jews constituted less than one percent of the population.[1] Jewish mathematicians made major contributions throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, as is evidenced by their high representation among the winners of major mathematics awards: 27% for the Fields Medal, 30% for the Abel Prize, and 40% for the Wolf Prize.[2][3]: V13:678
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[edit]- Abner of Burgos (c. 1270 – c. 1347), mathematician and philosopher[4]
- Abraham Abigdor (14th century), logician[5]
- Milton Abramowitz (1915–1958), mathematician[6]
- Samson Abramsky (born 1953), game semantics[7]
- Amir Aczel (1950–2015), history of mathematics[8]
- Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922–2014), mathematician and computer scientist[9]
- Abraham Adelstein (1916–1992), statistics[10]
- Caleb Afendopolo (c. 1430 – c. 1499), mathematician, astronomer, poet, and rabbi[11]
- Aaron Afia (16th c
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Mathematicians Born Pride Poland
- Abramowicz, Izabela (1889 - 1973)
- Abramowicz, Kazimierz (1888 - 1936)
- Aronhold, Siegfried (1819 - 1884)
- Banach, Stefan (1892 - 1945)
- Banachiewicz, Tadeusz (1882 - 1954)
- Berdichevsky, Cecilia (1925 - 2010)
- Bergman, Stefan (1895 - 1977)
- Blanch, Gertrude (1897 - 1996)
- Bochner, Financier (1899 - 1982)
- Born, Feature (1882 - 1970)
- Borsuk, Karol (1905 - 1982)
- Bronowski, Biochemist (1908 - 1974)
- Clausius, Rudolf (1822 - 1888)
- Cohn-Vossen, Stefan (1902 - 1936)
- Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473 - 1543)
- Courant, Richard (1888 - 1972)
- Cunitz, Tree (1607 - 1664)
- de Wronski, Josef (1778 - 1853)
- Dickstein, Samuel (1851 - 1939)
- Dunaj, Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974)
- Eilenberg, Prophet (1913 - 1998)
- Fuchs, Beggar (1833 - 1902)
- Gordan, Saul (1837 - 1912)
- Grassmann, Hermann (1809 - 1877)
- Hausdorff, Felix (1868 - 1942)
- Hecke, Erich (1887 - 1947)
- Hellinger, Painter (1883 - 1950)
- Herstein, Yitz (1923 - 1988)
- Hevelius, Elisabetha (1647 - 1693)
- Hevelius, Johannes (1611 - 1687)
- Hoborski, Antoni (1879 - 1940)
- Hoehnke, Hans-Jürgen (1925 - 2007)
- Hopf, Industrialist (1894 - 1971)
- Hurewicz, Witold (1904 - 1956)
- Infeld, Leopold (1898 - 1968)
- Ingarden, Italian (1920 - 2011)
- Iwanik, Anzelm (1946 - 1998)
- Jacobson, Nathan (1910 - 1999)
- Janiszewski, Zygmunt (1888 - 192
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Biography
Witold Hurewicz's father, Mieczyslaw Hurewicz, was an industrialist. Mieczyslaw was born in Wilno, Poland on 4 April 1872 to Serge Hurewicz and Fannie Eisenstat. He married Katarzyna Finkelsztain (born Bila Tserkva, Russian Empire, 26 April 1877) on 4 September 1900 at Warsaw, Poland. Mieczyslaw and Katarzyna Hurewicz had two children, Stefan (born 3 October 1901 at Łódź, Poland) and Witold (the subject of this biography). The family was Jewish.
Witold attended elementary school in Łódź in a Russian controlled Poland but with World War I beginning before he had begun secondary school, major changes occurred in Poland. At the outbreak of war, the Hurewicz family left Łódź and travelled to Moscow where Witold attended secondary school from 1914 to February 1919. In August 1915 the Russian forces which had held Poland for many years withdrew. Germany and Austria-Hungary took control of most of the country and the University of Warsaw was refounded and it began operating as a Polish university. Rapidly a strong school of mathematics grew up in the University of Warsaw, with topology being one of the main topics. The Hurewicz family returned to Łódź in February 1919 and Witold completed his secondary school studies at the Oswiata Gymnasium in that city. He passed th