Marcel Riesz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marcel Riesz

Hungarian mathematician

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1886

Place of Birth: Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary

Date of Death: 04-Sep-1969

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Hungary, Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Marcel Riesz (Hungarian: Riesz Marcell ['ri?s 'm?rt?s?ll]; 16 November 1886 – 4 September 1969) was a Hungarian mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras.
He spent most of his career in Lund (Sweden). Marcel is the younger brother of Frigyes Riesz, who was also an important mathematician and at times they worked together (see F.
and M.
Riesz theorem).