Felix Pollaczek

Felix Pollaczek ( born December 1, 1892 in Vienna, † April 29, 1981 in Boulogne- Billancourt ) was an Austro- French mathematician and engineer.

Pollaczek studied at the Vienna University of Technology and the Technical University of Brno, where he was awarded a degree in 1920 in electrical engineering. In 1922 he was at Isay Schur at the Humboldt University of Berlin in mathematics doctorate (On the body of the l-th and - th roots of unity ). He then worked as a telephone engineer at AEG in Berlin ( 1921-1923 ), and 1923 to 1933, the imperial post in Berlin Tempelhof. In 1933 he was dismissed as a Jew. He went to Paris, where he was a consulting engineer at the Société d' Etudes pour Liaisons Telegraphiques et téléphoniques. In 1947 he became a French citizen. 1939 to 1940 and again from 1944 he was Maitre de Recherches at the CNRS.

He dealt connected to his work as an electrical engineer with number theory, calculus, probability theory and theoretical physics. According to him, the Pollaczek - Chintchin formula is named in queuing theory (1930 ) and special orthogonal polynomials Arthur Erdélyi named after him.

In 1977 he was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Since 1921 he was married to the mathematician Hilda Geiringer, of which he in 1922 but broke up and with whom he had a daughter.

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