Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)

Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.

Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis (May 22, 1930 – August 16, 2010, Brooklyn) was a mathematician at Temple University who proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

Life

He was one of Claude Chevalley's students at Columbia University.

Ehrenpreis published prolifically and was the author of several volumes of mathematical research, including Fourier Analysis in Several Complex Variables (1970) and The Universality of the Radon Transform (2003).

Ehrenpreis was also a Rabbi, having received his ordination from the renowned Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. He was the author of a work on the Chumash and other religious topics, currently in manuscript.

He was known to mathematicians as "the kindly superman" for his remarkably diverse accomplishments –– mathematical researcher of international renown, eminent Torah scholar, and runner who completed every New York City Marathon from its inauguration in 1970 until 2007.

Known for

• Ehrenpreis's fundamental principle
• Ehrenpreis conjecture

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mathematician
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Claude Chevalley (nonfiction)
• Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem (nonfiction)
• Mathematician (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links:

• Leon Ehrenpreis @ Wikipedia
• Remembering Leon Ehrenpreis (pdf)