Gábor
Szegö, Hungarian
mathematician, born:
January 20,
1895,
Kunhegyes[?],
Hungary, died:
August 7,
1985,
Palo Alto,
California,
USA. His most important work was with problems,
Toeplitz matrices and
orthogonal polynomials. He was a commencing teacher to
János von Neumann. His book
Orthogonal polynomials published in 1939 is a classic within its field and today still widely used as a reference in polynomial theory.