Sergei Bernstein
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian: Серге́й Ната́нович Бернште́йн, sometimes Romanized as Bernshtein; 5 March 1880 – 26 October 1968) was a Ukrainian and Russian mathematician of Jewish origin known
Richard S. Varga
Richard Steven Varga (October 9, 1928 - February 25, 2022) was an American mathematician who specialized in numerical analysis and linear algebra. He was an Emeritus University Professor of Mathematic
Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez
Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez (sometimes spelled as Evgenii Yakovlevich Remez, Russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ре́мез; (born 1895 in Mstislavl, now Belarus; died 1975 in Kyiv, now Ukraine) was a Soviet mathem
Joseph L. Ullman
Joseph Leonard Ullman (30 January 1923, Buffalo, New York – 11 September 1995, Chelsea, Michigan) was a mathematician who worked on classical analysis with a focus on approximation theory. Ullman rece
Konstantin Posse
Konstantin Alexandrovich Posse (Russian: Константин Александрович Поссе; September 29, 1847 - August 24, 1928) was a Russian mathematician known for contributions to analysis and in particular approxi
Lipót Fejér
Lipót Fejér (or Leopold Fejér, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈfɛjeːr]; 9 February 1880 – 15 October 1959) was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage. Fejér was born Leopold Weisz, and changed to the
Leonid Kantorovich
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леони́д Вита́льевич Канторо́вич, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ]; 19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist, know
Kōsaku Yosida
Kōsaku Yosida (吉田 耕作, Yosida Kōsaku, 7 February 1909, Hiroshima – 20 June 1990) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem co
Naum Akhiezer
Naum Ilyich Akhiezer (Ukrainian: Нау́м Іллі́ч Ахіє́зер; Russian: Нау́м Ильи́ч Ахие́зер; 6 March 1901 – 3 June 1980) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in ap
Pavel Korovkin
Pavel Petrovich Korovkin (Russian: Павел Петрович Коровкин) (the family name is also transliterated as Korowkin in German sources), (9 July 1913 – 11 August 1985) was a Soviet mathematician whose main
Charles William Clenshaw
Charles William Clenshaw (15 March 1926, Southend-on-Sea, Essex – 23 September 2004) was an English mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis. He is known for the Clenshaw algorithm (1955) and
Alice Roth
Alice Roth (6 February 1905 – 22 July 1977) was a Swiss mathematician who invented the Swiss cheese set and made significant contributions to approximation theory. She was born, lived and died in Bern
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev
Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev (Russian: Его́р Ива́нович Золотарёв) (March 31, 1847, Saint Petersburg – July 19, 1878, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician.
Harold S. Shapiro
Harold Seymour Shapiro (2 April 1928 – 5 March 2021) was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, best known for inventing the so-called Shapiro polynomial
Isidor Natanson
Isidor Pavlovich Natanson (Russian: Исидор Павлович Натансон; February 8, 1906 in Zurich – July 3, 1964 in Leningrad) was a Swiss-born Soviet mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and
Ervin Feldheim
Ervin Feldheim (Kassa, September 21, 1912 – Bor, 1944) was a Hungarian mathematician working on analysis, particularly, approximation theory. He was killed by the Nazis in 1944.
Theodore J. Rivlin
Theodore Joseph Rivlin (11 September 1926, Brooklyn – 22 July 2006, Croton-on-Hudson) was an American mathematician, specializing in approximation theory. He is known for his 1969 book An Introduction