Problems and Theorems in Analysis II
Theory of Functions. Zeros. Polynomials. Determinants. Number Theory. Geometry
Authors: Polya, George, Szegö, Gabor
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Biography of George Pólya
Born in Budapest, December 13, 1887, George Pólya initially studied law, then languages and literature in Budapest. He came to mathematics in order to understand philosophy, but the subject of his doctorate in 1912 was in probability theory and he promptly abandoned philosophy.
After a year in Göttingen and a short stay in Paris, he received an appointment at the ETH in Zürich. His research was multi-faceted, ranging from series, probability, number theory and combinatorics to astronomy and voting systems. Some of his deepest work was on entire functions. He also worked in conformal mappings, potential theory, boundary value problems, and isoperimetric problems in mathematical physics, as well as heuristics late in his career. When Pólya left Europe in 1940, he first went to Brown University, then two years later to Stanford, where he remained until his death on September 7, 1985.
Biography of Gabor Szegö
Born in Kunhegyes, Hungary, January 20, 1895, Szegö studied in Budapest and Vienna, where he received his Ph. D. in 1918, after serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. He became a privatdozent at the University of Berlin and in 1926 succeeded Knopp at the University of Kšnigsberg. It was during his time in Berlin that he and Pólya collaborated on their great joint work, the Problems and Theorems in Analysis. Szegö's own research concentrated on orthogonal polynomials and Toeplitz matrices. With the deteriorating situation in Germany at that time, he moved in 1934 to Washington University, St. Louis, where he remained until 1938, when he moved to Stanford. As department head at Stanford, he arranged for Pólya to join the Stanford faculty in 1942. Szegö remained at Stanford until his death on August 7, 1985. - Reviews
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From the reviews: "... In the past, more of the leading mathematicians proposed and solved problems than today, and there were problem departments in many journals. Pólya and Szego must have combed all of the large problem literature from about 1850 to 1925 for their material, and their collection of the best in analysis is a heritage of lasting value. The work is unashamedly dated. With few exceptions, all of its material comes from before 1925. We can judge its vintage by a brief look at the author indices (combined). Let's start on the C's: Cantor, Carathéodory, Carleman, Carlson, Catalan, Cauchy, Cayley, Cesàro,... Or the L's: Lacour, Lagrange, Laguerre, Laisant, Lambert, Landau, Laplace, Lasker, Laurent, Lebesgue, Legendre,... Omission is also information: Carlitz, Erdös, Moser, etc."
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- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Functions of One Complex Variable Special Part
Pages 3-35
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The Location of Zeros
Pages 36-70
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Polynomials and Trigonometric Polynomials
Pages 71-91
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Determinants and Quadratic Forms
Pages 92-110
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Number Theory
Pages 111-156
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Problems and Theorems in Analysis II
- Book Subtitle
- Theory of Functions. Zeros. Polynomials. Determinants. Number Theory. Geometry
- Authors
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- George Polya
- Gabor Szegö
- Translated by
- Billigheimer, C.E.
- Series Title
- Classics in Mathematics
- Copyright
- 1998
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-61905-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-61905-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-63686-1
- Series ISSN
- 1431-0821
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 392
- Additional Information
- Originally published as volume 216 in the series: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften
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