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Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

Antoni Zygmund

Concentrate only on the achievements, and ignore the mistakes. When judging a mathematician you should only integrate f+ and ignore the negative part. Perhaps this should apply more generally to all evaluations of your fellow men.

Antoni Zygmund

Antoni Zygmund

Antoni Zygmund

Born: December 25, 1900

Died: May 30, 1992 (aged 91)

Bio: Antoni Zygmund was a Polish mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis.

Known for:

Selected papers of Antoni Zygmund (1989)
Trigonometric Series (1935)
Contributions to Fourier Analysis (1950)
Intégrales singulières (1965)
Analytic Functions

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