Hans Lewy (October 20, 1904 – August 23, 1988) was a German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables.
In 1950, Lewy was fired from the University of California, Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath. He was reinstated in 1952 by the California Supreme Court case Tolman v. Underhill.
He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He was awarded a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986.
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