James Alexander Shohat (aka Jacques Chokhate (or Chokhatte), 18 November 1886,
Brest-Litovsk
Brest ( be, Брэст / Берасьце, Bieraście, ; russian: Брест, ; uk, Берестя, Berestia; lt, Brasta; pl, Brześć; yi, בריסק, Brisk), formerly Brest-Litovsk (russian: Брест-Литовск, lit=Lithuanian Br ...
– 8 October 1944,
Philadelphia
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) was a Russian-American mathematician at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universit ...
who worked on the
moment problem.
He studied at the
University of Petrograd and married the physicist
Nadiascha W. Galli, the couple emigrating from Russia to the United States in 1923.
He was an Invited Speaker of the
ICM in 1924 at Toronto.
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J. D. Tamarkin
Jacob David Tamarkin (russian: Я́ков Дави́дович Тама́ркин, ''Yakov Davidovich Tamarkin''; 11 July 1888 – 18 November 1945) was a Russian-American mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis.
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[18 Aug. 2012 email from R. Askey: " Norman Levinson give the following paper a very strong review. On van der Pol's and non-linear differential equations, J. Appl. Phys15 (1944), 568-574 long with giving a very strong negative comment on Shohat's earlier paper on von der Pol's equation"]
See also
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Shohat expansion
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Shohat–Favard theorem In mathematics, Favard's theorem, also called the Shohat–Favard theorem, states that a sequence of polynomials satisfying a suitable 3-term recurrence relation is a sequence of orthogonal polynomials. The theorem was introduced in the theory ...
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20th-century American mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
1886 births
1944 deaths
Academic staff of Herzen University
Soviet emigrants to the United States