Herman (Chaim) Müntz (1884-1956)


  • Alternative spelling: Muntz
This is a photo of a portrait of Müntz in the possesion of Goran David Gerby. The portrait was a gift of Herman Müntz to Gunnar Gerby. Gunnar and Monica Gerby, and Rabbi Emil Kronheim (Monica's father), were friends of Müntz in his later years.

  • Müntz, Ch. H., Über den Approximationssatz von Weierstrass, in H. A. Schwarz's Festschrift, Berlin, 1914, pp. 303-312. This paper contains the original proof of the Müntz Completeness Theorem. It affirmatively answers a question posed by S. N. Bernstein two years previously. Review in ZBMath Open.


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