Leopoldo Nachbin Explained

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.

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

He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) of 1962 in Stockholm.^[3]

Leopoldo went to primary school in Recife with Brazilian literary giant Clarice Lispector. He is featured in one of her short stories, called “As Grandes Punições” (The Great Punishments) in her book “Aprendendo a Viver,” by the Rocco publishing house.

Bibliography

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

References

• Ralph A. Raimi - Leopoldo Nachbin, 1922-1993.
• Candido Lima da Silva Dias, Chaim Samuel Hönig, Luis Adauto da Justa Medeiros - Leopoldo Nachbin.
• J. Horváth. The life and works of Leopoldo Nachbin.

External links

• • Leopoldo Nachbin, 1922-1993
• Os trabalhos de Leopoldo Nachbin (1922-1993), by Jorge Mujica, in Portuguese, free translation: "The Works of Leopoldo Nachbin (1922-1993)"

Notes and References

1. Book: 2018 . Garrido . Ángel . Wybraniec-Skardowska. Urszula . Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska . The Lvov-Warsaw School: Past and Present . Birkhäuser . 782. 978-3-319-65429-4.
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2016-03-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130426172142/http://www.im.ufrj.br/doc/nachbin.htm . 2013-04-26 . dead .
3. International Mathematical Union (IMU) . "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897" . mathunion.org. Retrieved on 8 July 2017.