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Michael Fekete

Israeli-Hungarian mathematician (1886–1957)

Summary

Israeli-Hungarian mathematician (1886–1957)

Field	Value
name	Michael Fekete
native_name	מיכאל פקטה
native_name_lang	he
image	ירושלים - פרופסור מיכאל פקטה-JNF011651.jpeg
caption	Fekete in 1940
birth_name	Mihály Fekete
birth_date
birth_place	Zenta, Austria-Hungary, (today Senta, Serbia)
death_date
death_place	Jerusalem, Israel
nationality	Israeli
field	Mathematics
work_institution	Budapest University
Hebrew University
alma_mater	University of Budapest
doctoral_advisor	Lipót Fejér
doctoral_students	Aryeh Dvoretzky
Michael Bahir Maschler
Zeev Nehari
Menahem Max Schiffer
known_for	Fekete's lemma, Fekete polynomial
prizes	Israel Prize for Exact Sciences (1955)

Hebrew University Michael Bahir Maschler Zeev Nehari Menahem Max Schiffer Michael (Mihály) Fekete (; 19 July 1886 – 13 May 1957) was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.

Biography

Michael Fekete was born in Zenta, Austria-Hungary (today Senta, Serbia). He received his PhD in 1909 from the University of Budapest (later renamed Eötvös Loránd University). He studied under Lipót Fejér. After completing his PhD he switched to University of Göttingen, which was considered a mathematics hub. In 1914, he returned to the University of Budapest, where he attained the title of Privatdozent.{{cite web

Fekete also worked as a private math tutor. Among his students was János Neumann. In 1922, Fekete published a paper together with Neumann on extremal polynomials, which was Neumann's first scientific paper. Fekete dedicated the majority of his scientific work to the transfinite diameter.

In 1928 Fekete immigrated to Mandate Palestine and was among the first instructors of the Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1929 he was promoted to professor, and eventually headed the institute, succeeding Edmund Landau and Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel. He later became the dean of Natural Sciences, and between the years 1946–1948 he was Hebrew University Provost.

Among his students were Aryeh Dvoretzky and Michael Bahir Maschler.

Awards and recognition

In 1955, Fekete was awarded the Israel Prize for exact sciences.

References

Literature

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References

(1958). "Obituary: Michael Fekete". Journal of the London Mathematical Society.
"Israel Prize recipients in 1955 (in Hebrew)". cms.education.gov.il (Israel Prize official website).

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