Emil Grosswald
| Emil Grosswald | |
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| Born |
December 15, 1912 Bucharest, Romania |
| Died | April 11, 1989 (aged 76) |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Pennsylvania Temple University |
| Alma mater |
University of Bucharest University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Rademacher |
| Doctoral students |
David Bressoud Jean-Marie De Koninck |
Emil Grosswald (December 15, 1912 – April 11, 1989) was a mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. His doctoral advisor was Hans Rademacher.
Grosswald was born on December 15, 1912 in Bucharest, Romania. He received a Master's degree in both mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of Bucharest in 1933, spent 6 months in Italy and then received a a Diplôme de l”Ecole de l’Electricité de Paris.
Grosswald was Jewish. When war broke out, he fled from Paris in June, 1940 to Montpellier, where he began doctoral studies in mathematics. He fled at the end of 1941, through Spain and Lisbon to Cuba. He moved to Puerto Rico in 1946 and then to the United States in 1948. He received his PhD under Hans Rademacher from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris in 1964-1965 and his book, The Theory of Numbers was written that year.
He met his wife Elisabeth (Lissy) Rosenthal in Cuba, probably in 1941 or 1942. They were married in 1950 in Saskatoon, Canada, where he had his first teaching position after receiving his Ph.D. They spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, in 1951 and 1959. During their first stay, they met Einstein, with whom Emil had a correspondence, later bequeathed to the University of Texas, and formed many friendships, among others with the physicist Freeman Dyson. Emil and Lissy had two daughters, Blanche, who became a professor of Social Work at Rutgers University but died in 2003 at the age of 50, and Vivan, a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh. Vivian was decorated in 2007 by the Republic of Austria for her work as the United States appointee to the Austrian General Settlement Fund Committee for Nazi-era property compensation, and in 2013 by the government of France for her services in promotion of the French language and culture in the United States. Emil is the uncle of Pamela Ronald, whose father Robert Ronald (né Rosenthal) describes the family’s escape from the Nazis in his memoir Last Train to Freedom. The son of Lissy’s second cousin (Ernest Beutler) is 2011 Nobel Laureate Bruce Beutler. Emil was also the nephew of the French musician Marcel Mihalovici, who arrived in Paris in the 1920s with Enesco.
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