Biography:Leopoldo Nachbin

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Leopoldo Nachbin in 1943

Leopoldo Nachbin (7 January 1922 – 3 April 1993) was a Jewish-Brazilian[1] mathematician who dealt with topology, and harmonic analysis.[2]

Nachbin was born in Recife, and is best known for Nachbin's theorem. He died, aged 71, in Rio de Janeiro.

Nachbin was a Ph.D. student of Laurent Schwartz.[3]

His Ph.D. students include Francisco Antônio Dória and Seán Dineen.[3]

He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) of 1962 in Stockholm.[4]

Bibliography

  • Topology and Order (Krieger Pub. Co., 1965)
  • Introdução à Álgebra (McGraw-Hill, 1971, in Portuguese)

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