Landau, Charlotte (Dolli)
- Born: Mar 12, 1907, Berlin, Charlottenburg, Germany
- Marriage (1): Schoenberg, Isaac (Iso) Jakob
- Died: Jul 2, 1949, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States at age 42
General Notes:
She was married to the mathematician Isaac (Iso) Jakob Schoenberg. Afteer studying at the universities of Jassy (Iasi) in Moldavia, and Berling, Schoenberg studied in Gottingen where he met Georg Landau. In 1928 Landau arranged for Schoenberg t o go to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. When he returned in 1930 he married Landau's daughter Charlotted. In 1930 he and his wife moved to the United Staes. He worked at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Wis consin-Madison. Schoenberg is known for his discovery of splines.
About Isaac (Iso) Jakob Schoenberg from the website Wikipedia:
Schoenberg was born in Galai. He studied at the University of Iai, receiving his M.A. in 1922. From 1922 to 1925 he studied at the Universities of Berlin and Göttingen, working on a topic in analytic number theory suggested by Issai Schur. He pr esented his thesis to the University of IaÈ™i, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1926. In Göttingen, he met Edmund Landau, who arranged a visit for Schoenberg to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1928. During this visit, Schoenberg began his influential w ork on total positivity and variation-diminishing linear transformations. In 1930, he returned from Jerusalem, and married Landau's daughter Charlotte in Berlin.
In 1930, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, which enabled him to go to the United States, visiting the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1935, he taught at Swarthmore Colleg e and Colby College. In 1941, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. During 1943-1945 he was released from U. Penn. in order to perform war work as a mathematician at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. It was during this tim e that he initiated the work for which he is most famous, the theory of splines.
In 1966 he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he became a member of the Mathematics Research Center. He remained there until he retired in 1973. In 1974 he won a Lester R. Ford Award.
His books:
Schoenberg, I. J. (1973), Cardinal Spline Interpolation, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics[2]
Schoenberg, I. J. (1982), Mathematical time exposures, Mathematical Association of America, ISBN 0-88385-438-4, Unknown ID:loc=82-062766
Schoenberg, I. J. (1988), Selected Papers, Vol.1 and 2 (Ed. C. de Boor), Birkhäuser.
He wrote about 175 papers on many disparate subjects. Around 50 of these were on Splines. He also wrote on Approximation theory, the Kakeya problem, Polya frequency functions, and a problem of Edmund Landau. His coauthors included John von Neumann , Hans Rademacher, Theodore Motzkin, George Polya, A. S. Besicovitch, Gabor Szego, Donald J. Newman, Richard Askey, Bernard Epstein, and Carl de Boor.
Charlotte married Isaac (Iso) Jakob Schoenberg. (Isaac (Iso) Jakob Schoenberg was born on Apr 21, 1903 in Galatz (Galtati) Moldavia, Romania and died on Feb 21, 1990 in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States.)
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