Hans Lewy - Publications

Publications

A selection of his work, edited by David Kinderlehrer and including his most important works, was published as the two volume work (Kinderlehrer 2002a) and (Kinderlehrer 2002a)

• Kinderlehrer, David, ed. (2002a), Hans Lewy Selecta. Volume 1, Contemporary Mathematicians, Boston-Basel-Stuttgart: Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. lxvi+357, ISBN 0-8176-3523-8, Zbl 1132.01312, http://books.google.com/books?id=VDutq5E6CbgC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=true. With biographical essays by Helen Lewy and Constance Reid, and commentaries on Lewy's work by Erhard Heinz, Peter D. Lax, Jean Leray, Richard MacCamy, Louis Nirenberg and François Treves.
• Kinderlehrer, David, ed. (2002b), Hans Lewy Selecta. Volume 2, Contemporary Mathematicians, Boston-Basel-Stuttgart: Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. xviii, 446, ISBN 0-8176-3524-6, Zbl 1147.01335, http://books.google.com/books?id=mX8hTcETCc4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true.

The following works are included in his "Selecta" in their original language or translated form.

• Courant, R.; Friedrichs, K.; Lewy, H. (1928), "Über die partiellen Differenzengleichungen der mathematischen Physik" (in German), Mathematische Annalen 100 (1): 32–74, doi:10.1007/BF01448839, JFM 54.0486.01, MR 1512478, http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?GDZPPN002272636. There are also two English translations of the 1928 German original paper: the first one is a translation from the German by Phyllis Fox, circulated as a research report: Courant, R.; Friedrichs, K.; Lewy, H. (September 1956), On the partial difference equations of mathematical physics, AEC Research and Development Report, NYO-7689, New York: AEC Computing and Applied Mathematics Centre – Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, pp. V + 76, archived from the original on October 23, 2008, http://www.archive.org/stream/onpartialdiffere00cour#page/n0/mode/2up. The second one is a typographical improvement of the first, published by IBM as: Courant, R.; Friedrichs, K.; Lewy, H. (March 1967), "On the partial difference equations of mathematical physics", IBM Journal of Research and Development 11 (2): 215–234, MR 0213764, Zbl 0145.40402, http://domino.research.ibm.com/tchjr/journalindex.nsf/a3807c5b4823c53f85256561006324be/769774a3c9f3685f85256bfa00683f8a!OpenDocument. A freely downlodable version of this one can be fonud here
• Lewy, Hans (1957), "An example of a smooth linear partial differential equation without solution", Annals of Mathematics 66 (1): 155–158, doi:10.2307/1970121, JSTOR 1970121, MR 0088629, Zbl 0078.08104.
• Lewy, Hans (1977), On the boundary behavior of holomorphic mappings (Lezione tenuta il 3 maggio 1976) (Lecture given on May 3, 1976), Contributi del Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare di Scienze Matematiche e Loro Applicazioni, 35, Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 8, http://www.lincei.it/pubblicazioni/catalogo/volume.php?rid=33201.