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He was elected a member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] in 1926. From 1927, he was director of the [[Mittag-Leffler Institute]]. |
He was elected a member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] in 1926. From 1927, he was director of the [[Mittag-Leffler Institute]]. |
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Carleman's abuse of alcohol was described by [[Norbert Wiener]]<ref>: |
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"He died of drink—not the social drinking which leads so often to ruin here—but the fiery, passionate dipsomania which is a common disease even in the very best circles of the Scandinavian countries. During meetings he was often a bit drunk, and afterwards in Paris I saw him come to [[Szolem Mandelbrojt|Mandelbrojt]]'s apartment for an advance on the travel money due him, red-eyed, with a three-day beard." ({{cite book|first=Norbert|last=Wiener|authorlink=Norbert Wiener|edition=later republished by MIT Press|mr=77455|title=I am a mathematician: The later life of a prodigy|publisher= Doubleday and Co.|location=Garden City, N. Y.|pages=317–318|year=1956}}) |
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</ref> and by [[William Feller]].<ref>According to {{cite book|last=Siegmund-Schultze|first=R.|year=2009|title= Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual fates and global impact|location=Princeton, New Jersey|publisher= Princeton University Press|page=135|mr=252285}}, [[William Feller]] wrote to [[Richard Courant]]: "I never catch a glimpse of pure mathematics, partly because it virtually does not |
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exist as a university institution—the students are learning on their own, the |
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professors are only doing the exams—partly because Carleman is of the touching [rührend] opinion that one should execute [an die Wand stellen] all Jews |
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and immigrants (which, however, he only tells his assistant after consuming a |
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nonnegative [nichtnegativ] amount of alcohol)".</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* [[Carleman's condition]] |
* [[Carleman's condition]] |
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Revision as of 18:40, 3 December 2011
Torsten Carleman (8 July 1892, Visseltofta, Osby – 11 January 1949, Stockholm), born Tage Gills Torsten Carleman, was a Swedish mathematician.
Carleman obtained important results in various branches of analysis, in particular, the theory of quasi-analytic functions (where he proved the Denjoy–Carleman theorem, which gives a necessary and sufficient condition for quasi-analyticity), complex analysis (where he established the Carleman formula), harmonic analysis, approximation theory, and the moment problem (where he found a sufficient condition for determinacy). He is also remembered for his work on singular integral equations, and on the kinetic theory of gases (in particular, Boltzmann's equation).[1]
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1926. From 1927, he was director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute.
See also
Notes
- ^ Carlson, F. (1950). "Torsten Carleman". Acta Math. (in French). 82 (1): i–vi. MR 1555457.
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