GINSBURG, JEKUTHIEL

GINSBURG, JEKUTHIEL
GINSBURG, JEKUTHIEL (1889–1957), mathematician and Hebrew writer, brother of Simon and Pesaḥ Ginzburg\>\> . Born in Russia, he emigrated to the United States in 1912, studied at Columbia University and, later, taught mathematics at Teachers College of Columbia University. In 1930 he was appointed professor and head of the department of mathematics at Yeshiva College. In 1932 he founded the quarterly Scripta Mathematica, edited the Scripta Mathematica Library, and coauthored (with D.E. Smith) the History of Mathematics in America before 1900 (1936). His Hebrew feuilletons appeared in Hadoar under the pseudonym of J.L. Gog. His articles on the role of Jews in mathematics were collected in his Ketavim Nivḥarim ("Selected Writings," 1960), which includes his biography and data on his literary and scientific works. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kressel, Leksikon, 1 (1965), 472f. (Eisig Silberschlag)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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