Harry Dym (January 26, 1938 – July 18, 2024) was an Israeli-born American mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Dym's research interests included operator theory, interpolation theory, and inverse problems.
Harry Dym | |
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הארי דים | |
Born | January 26, 1938 |
Died | July 18, 2024 | (aged 86)
Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Dym equation |
Relatives | Clive Dym (brother) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
Doctoral advisor | Henry McKean |
Dym earned his Ph.D. in 1965 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Henry McKean.[1] He introduced the Dym equation, which bears his name.[2]
Works
edit- as editor with Bernd Fritzsche, Victor Katsnelson, and Bernd Kirstein: Topics in Interpolation Theory, Birkhäuser 1997[5]
- Linear Algebra in Action, American Mathematical Society 2007
- with H. P. McKean: Fourier Series and Integrals, Academic Press 1974[6]
- with H. P. McKean: Gaussian processes, function theory, and the inverse spectral problem, Academic Press 1976,[7] Dover 2008
- contractive matrix functions, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and interpolation, AMS 1989[8]
- as editor: Topics in Analysis and Operator Theory, Birkhäuser 1989
- with Vladimir Bolotnikov: On boundary interpolation for matrix valued Schur functions, AMS 2006
- with Damir Z. Arov: -contractive matrix valued functions and related topics, Cambridge University Press 2008
Sources
edit- Daniel Alpay, Israel Gohberg, Victor Vinnikov (Herausgeber) Interpolation theory, systems theory, and related topics: the Harry Dym anniversary volume, Birkhäuser 2002.
References
edit- ^ Harry Dym at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Scott, Alwyn (2013), Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, Routledge, p. 859, ISBN 9781135455583.
- ^ "IN MEMORIAM - Prof. Harry Dym | WeizmannCompass". www.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ Ekhad, Shalosh B.; Zeilberger, Doron (2 August 2024). "Graphic and Symbolic Experiments with the Harry Dym Equation" (PDF). math.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
- ^ Gheondea, Aurelian (Spring 1998). "Reviewed Work: Topics in Interpolation Theory, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 95 by H. Dym, B. Fritzsche, V. Katsnelson, B. Kirstein". Journal of Operator Theory. 39 (2): 405–407. JSTOR 24714892.
- ^ Zalcman, Lawrence (1973). "Review of Fourier series and integrals by H. Dym and H. P. McKean". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (4): 641–645. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1973-13246-X.
- ^ Sarason, Donald (1978). "Review of Gaussian processes, function theory, and the inverse spectral problem by H. Dym and H. P. McKean". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 84 (2): 260–262. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14467-X.
- ^ Ball, Jonathan A. (1990). "Review of contractive matrix functions, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and interpolation by Harry Dym". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 23 (2): 547–551. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15976-2.
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