Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez (sometimes spelled as Evgenii Yakovlevich Remez, russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ре́мез; (born 1895 in
Mstislavl
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, now
Belarus
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; died 1975 in
Kyiv
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, now
Ukraine
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) was a
Soviet
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
. He is known for his work in the
constructive function theory In mathematical analysis, constructive function theory is a field which studies the connection between the smoothness of a function and its degree of approximation. It is closely related to approximation theory. The term was coined by Sergei Bernste ...
, in particular, for the
Remez algorithm
The Remez algorithm or Remez exchange algorithm, published by Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez in 1934, is an iterative algorithm used to find simple approximations to functions, specifically, approximations by functions in a Chebyshev space that are the ...
and the
Remez inequality In mathematics, the Remez inequality, discovered by the Soviet mathematician Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez , gives a bound on the sup norms of certain polynomials, the bound being attained by the Chebyshev polynomials.
The inequality
Let ''σ'' be an ...
.
His doctoral students include
Boris Korenblum
Boris Isaac Korenblum (Борис Исаакович Коренблюм, 12 August 1923, Odessa, now Ukraine – 15 December 2011, Slingerlands, New York) was a Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis.
Boris ...
.
References
*V K Dzyadyk, Yu A Mitropol'skii and A M Samoilenko, Evgenii Yakovlevich Remez (on the centenary of his birth) (Ukrainian), Ukrain. Mat. Zh. 48 (2) (1996), 285-286.
*Yu A Mitropol'skii, V K Dzyadyk and V T Gavrilyuk, Evgenii Yakovlevich Remez (on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of his birth) (Russian), Ukrain. Mat. Zh. 38 (4) (1986), 539-540.
*Yu A Mitropol'skii, V K Dzjadyk and V T Gavriljuk, Evgenii Yakovlevich Remez (on the occasion of his eightieth birthday) (Russian), Ukrain. Mat. Z. 28 (5) (1976), 711.
External links
*
Remez at MacTutor
Soviet mathematicians
Approximation theorists
1890s births
1975 deaths
Belarusian Jews
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