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Otto Toeplitz

died 84 years ago

15 February 1940

Toeplitz worked on infinite linear and quadratic forms. In the 1930's he developed a general theory of infinite dimensional spaces and criticised Banach's work as being too abstract.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Toeplitz/