Michael Fekete
| Michael (Mihály) Fekete | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 19, 1886 Zenta, Bácska, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | May 13, 1957 (aged 70) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Residence | Israel |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Budapest University Hebrew University |
| Alma mater | Budapest University |
| Doctoral advisor | Lipót Fejér |
| Doctoral students |
Aryeh Dvoretzky Amnon Jakimovski Michael Bahir Maschler Zeev Nehari Menahem Max Schiffer |
| Known for | Fekete's lemma, Fekete polynomial |
| Notable awards | Israel Prize for Exact Sciences (1955) |
Michael (Mihály) Fekete (Hebrew: מיכאל פקטה; July 19, 1886 – May 13, 1957) was an Israeli-Hungarian mathematician.
Fekete was born in 1886 in Zenta, Bačka, in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Senta in Vojvodina, Serbia). He received his PhD in 1909 from the Budapest University (later renamed to Eötvös Loránd University), under the stewardship of Lipót Fejér, among whose students were other mathematicians such as Paul Erdős, John von Neumann, Pál Turán and George Pólya. After completing his PhD he left to Georg-August University of Göttingen, which in those days was considered a mathematics hub, and subsequently returned to the University of Budapest, where he attained the title of Privatdozent. In addition, Fekete engaged in private mathematics tutoring. Among his students was János Neumann, who, was later known in the United States as John von Neumann. In 1922, Fekete published a paper together with von Neumann in the subject of extremal polynomials. This was von Neumann's first scientific paper. Fekete dedicated the majority of his scientific work to the transfinite diameter.
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