Hans Lewy

Hans Lewy (October 20, 1904 – August 23, 1988) was an American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations.

He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He was awarded a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986.

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v • d • e Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Israel Gelfand / Carl L. Siegel (1978) · Jean Leray / André Weil (1979) · Henri Cartan / Andrey Kolmogorov (1980) · Lars Ahlfors / Oscar Zariski (1981) · Hassler Whitney / Mark Grigoryevich Krein (1982) · Shiing-Shen Chern / Paul Erdős (1983/4) · Kunihiko Kodaira / Hans Lewy (1984/5) · Samuel Eilenberg / Atle Selberg (1986) · Kiyoshi Itō / Peter Lax (1987) · Friedrich Hirzebruch / Lars Hörmander (1988) · Alberto Calderón / John Milnor (1989) · Ennio de Giorgi / Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro (1990) · Lennart Carleson / John G. Thompson (1992) · Mikhail Gromov / Jacques Tits (1993) · Jürgen Moser (1994/5) · Robert Langlands / Andrew Wiles (1995/6) · Joseph Keller / Yakov G. Sinai (1996/7) · László Lovász / Elias M. Stein (1999) · Raoul Bott / Jean-Pierre Serre (2000) · Vladimir Arnold / Saharon Shelah (2001) · Mikio Sato / John Tate (2002/3) · Grigory Margulis / Sergei Petrovich Novikov (2005) · Stephen Smale / Hillel Furstenberg (2006/7) · Pierre Deligne / Phillip A. Griffiths / David B. Mumford (2008)

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