Isaac Jacob Schoenberg

Isaac Jacob Schoenberg

Isaac Jacob Schoenberg (April 21 1903, Galaţi—February 21 1990) was a Romanian-American mathematician, known for his discovery of splines.

He studied at the University of Iaşi, 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 presented his thesis to the University of Iaşi, 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 work 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 College 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 time 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.

References

* Schoenberg, Contributions to the problem of approximation of equidistant data by analytic functions, "Quart. Appl. Math.," vol. 4, pp. 45–99 and 112–141, 1946.

See also

* Spline (mathematics)

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