Harry Dym

Harry Dym (Hebrew: הארי דים; January 26, 1938 – July 18, 2024) was an Israeli-American mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Dym's research interests included operator theory, interpolation theory, and inverse problems.

BornJanuary 26, 1938

DiedJuly 18, 2024 (aged 86)

AlmamaterMassachusetts Institute of Technology

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Harry Dym
הארי דים
Born	(1938-01-26)January 26, 1938
Died	July 18, 2024(2024-07-18) (aged 86)
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Dym equation
Relatives	Clive Dym (brother)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral advisor	Henry McKean

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Dym earned his Ph.D. in 1965 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Henry McKean.^[1] He introduced the Dym equation, which bears his name.^[2]

Dym died on July 18, 2024, at the age of 86.^[3]^[4]

Works

as editor with Bernd Fritzsche, Victor Katsnelson, and Bernd Kirstein: Topics in Interpolation Theory, Birkhäuser 1997^[5]
Linear Algebra in Action, American Mathematical Society 2007
with H. P. McKean: Fourier Series and Integrals, Academic Press 1974^[6]
with H. P. McKean: Gaussian processes, function theory, and the inverse spectral problem, Academic Press 1976,^[7] Dover 2008
$J$ contractive matrix functions, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and interpolation, AMS 1989^[8]
as editor: Topics in Analysis and Operator Theory, Birkhäuser 1989
with Vladimir Bolotnikov: On boundary interpolation for matrix valued Schur functions, AMS 2006
with Damir Z. Arov: $J$ -contractive matrix valued functions and related topics, Cambridge University Press 2008

Daniel Alpay, Israel Gohberg, Victor Vinnikov (Herausgeber) Interpolation theory, systems theory, and related topics: the Harry Dym anniversary volume, Birkhäuser 2002.

[1]
Harry Dym at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
[2]
Scott, Alwyn (2013), Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, Routledge, p. 859, ISBN 9781135455583.
[3]
"IN MEMORIAM - Prof. Harry Dym | WeizmannCompass". www.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
[4]
Ekhad, Shalosh B.; Zeilberger, Doron (2 August 2024). "Graphic and Symbolic Experiments with the Harry Dym Equation" (PDF). math.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
[5]
Gheondea, Aurelian (Spring 1998). "Reviewed Work: Topics in Interpolation Theory, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 95 by H. Dym, B. Fritzsche, V. Katsnelson, B. Kirstein". Journal of Operator Theory. 39 (2): 405–407. JSTOR 24714892.
[6]
Zalcman, Lawrence (1973). "Review of Fourier series and integrals by H. Dym and H. P. McKean". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (4): 641–645. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1973-13246-X.
[7]
Sarason, Donald (1978). "Review of Gaussian processes, function theory, and the inverse spectral problem by H. Dym and H. P. McKean". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 84 (2): 260–262. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14467-X.
[8]
Ball, Jonathan A. (1990). "Review of $J$ contractive matrix functions, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and interpolation by Harry Dym". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 23 (2): 547–551. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15976-2.