Schoenberg, I. J., 1900-1993.

Isaac Jacob "Iso" Schoenberg (1903-1990) was born in Galatz, Romania, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Jassy [Iasi] in Moldavia in 1926. He came to the United States in 1930 on a Rockefeller fellowship where he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and Harvard University and later became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1933-1935).

His major mathematical teaching posts were at the University of Pennsylvania (1941-1966) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1966-1973). He was released from work at the University of Pennsylvania from 1943-1945 to work at the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, where he began his work on the theory of splines. Other research interests of Schoenberg include Polya frequency functions and cardinal splines. Jacob "Iso" Schoenberg (1903-1990) was born in Galatz, Romania and received his Ph. D. from the University of Jassy (Iasi) in Moldavia in 1926. He came to the United States in 1930 on a Rockefeller fellowship where he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and Harvard University. Later he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University (1933-1935). His major mathematical teaching posts were at the University of Pennsylvania (1941-1966) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1966-1973). He was released from work at the University of Pennsylvania from 1943-1945 to work at the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, where he began his work on the theory of splines. Other research interests included Polya frequency functions and cardinal splines.

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