Frigyes Riesz
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1880-01-22 ) 22 January 1880, Győr , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 28 February 1956 (1956-02-28) (aged 76), Budapest , Hungary
- Citizenship
- Hungarian
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Doctoral advisor
- Gyula Vályi
- Doctoral students
- János Aczél , Steven Gaal , John Horvath , Tibor Radó , Alfréd Rényi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frigyes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Győr
- Place of death
- Budapest
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Employer
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Gyula Vályi
- Field of work
- functional analysis
- Image
- Frigyes Riesz.jpeg
- Residence
- Hungary
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- Commons category
- Frigyes Riesz
- date of birth
- 1880-01-22
- date of death
- 1956-02-28
- Erdős number
- 2
- Commons gallery
- Frigyes Riesz
- place of burial
- Fiume Road Graveyard
- relative
- Åke Pleijel
- P8168
- Claudia de Breij
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Frigyes Riesz (Hungarian: Riesz Frigyes, pronounced [ˈriːs ˈfriɟɛʃ], sometimes known in English and French as Frederic Riesz; 22 January 1880 – 28 February 1956) was a Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, as did his younger brother Marcel Riesz.
Life and career
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