Herman (Chaim) Müntz (1884-1956)

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• Alternative spelling: Muntz

This is a photo of a portrait of Müntz in the possesion of Goran David Gerby. The portrait was a gift of Herman Müntz to Gunnar Gerby. Gunnar and Monica Gerby, and Rabbi Emil Kronheim (Monica's father), were friends of Müntz in his later years.

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• Chaim Herman Müntz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

• Herman (Chaim) Müntz at Wikipedia.

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• Müntz, Ch. H., Über den Approximationssatz von Weierstrass, in H. A. Schwarz's Festschrift, Berlin, 1914, pp. 303-312. This paper contains the original proof of the Müntz Completeness Theorem. It affirmatively answers a question posed by S. N. Bernstein two years previously. Review in ZBMath Open.

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• Ortiz, E. L., and A. Pinkus, Herman Müntz: A Mathematician's Odyssey, The Mathematical Intelligencer 27 (2005), 22-30. For those with access, this article can also be viewed here.

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