Jaroslav Kurzweil (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈkurtsvajl], 7 May 1926, Prague – 17 March 2022) was a Czech mathematician.
Biography
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Kurzweil was a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Henstock–Kurzweil integral in terms of Riemann sums, first published in 1957 in the Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal. He has been awarded the highest possible scientific prize of Czechia, the "Czech Brain" of the year 2006, as an acknowledgement of his life achievements.
With limited opportunities of contact between mathematicians within the Iron Curtain and those from the West, Kurzweil and Ivo Babuška founded a series of international scientific conferences named EQUADIFF, being held every four years since 1962 alternately in Prague, Bratislava, and Brno. He was chief editor of Mathematica Bohemica (then called Časopis pro pěstování matematiky) from 1956 to 1970 and was in its editorial board until 2007. In 2007, Kurzweil delivered a New Year's toast on Czech Television.
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References
- Mathematician Jaroslav Kurzweil to be awarded "Czech Brain" prize, Archived 17 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine Czech Radio, 10 May 2006. Accessed 23 January 2010
- Awards of researchers of the Institute. Archived 29 February 2008 at archive.today Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Accessed 23 January 2010
- Ninety years of Jaroslav Kurzweil
- Kurzweil, Jaroslav (2012). Generalized Ordinary Differential Equations: Not Absolutely Continuous Solutions. Series in Real Analysis. 11. World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 978-9814324021.
- Jiří Jarník; Štefan Schwabik; Milan Tvrdý; Ivo Vrkoč, Sixty years of Jaroslav Kurzweil. Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, Vol. 36 (1986), No. 1, 147–166
- Kurzweil J.. Generalized ordinary differential equations and continuous dependence on a parameter. Czechoslovak Mathe. Journal, 7 (82) 1957, 418–449.