Hans Lewy was an American mathematician

Mathematician

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, known for his work on partial differential equation

Partial differential equation

In mathematics, partial differential equations are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function of several independent variables and their partial derivatives with respect to those variables...

s and on the theory of functions of several complex variables

Several complex variables

The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with functionson the space Cn of n-tuples of complex numbers...

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He was born in Breslau, Germany

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 (now Wrocław, Poland

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). He was awarded a Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Wolf Prize in Mathematics

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 in 1986.

External links

.}}. A audio interview, available at eCommons@Cornell from the [Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews ].. The biographical entry about Hans Lewy at the Enciclopedia Treccani.