M. M. Schiffer Papers, 1953-1979

Corput, J. G. van der (Johannes Gualtherus), 1890-

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Minorsky, Nicolai, 1885-1970

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Fuller, Robert W.

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Schiffer, M.M.

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Schiffer was considered an authority on complex variables and conformal mapping; his special province was the application of these fields to mathematical physics, particularly to hydrodynamics. A native of Berlin, Schiffer earned his undergraduate degree at Friedrich-Wilhelm University in 1930 and pursued his graduate work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, earning his Ph.D. in 1938. He taught there until 1946, when he moved to the United States. He taught at Harvard and Princeton before joi...