Edgar Reich

Background

Reich, Edgar was born on June 7, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. Arrived in the United States in 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Jonas and Luna Sarah (Lunenfeld) Reich.

Education

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, 1947. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1954.

Career

Research assistant Servomechanisma Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1947—1949. Mathematician Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1949—1956. Member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1954—1955.

Professor mathematics University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961—2001, professor emeritus, since 2001, head School Mathematics 1969—1971. Member Forschungsinstitut Mathematik Swiss Polytechnic Institute, Zurich, 1971—1972, 1978—1979, 1986—1987. Visiting professor Swiss Polytechnic Institute, 1982-1983.

Christmas lecturer Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, 1989, plenary lecturer Nahariya, 2006.

Achievements

• Edgar Reich has been listed as a noteworthy mathematics professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Mathematics Society, Finnish Academy Science and Letters (foreign member).

Connections

Married Phyllis Masten, June 10, 1949 (deceased 1994). Children: Eugene, Frances. Married Julia Henop, December 14, 1998 (deceased February 2006).

Father:

Jonas Reich

Mother:

Luna Sarah (Lunenfeld) Reich

Spouse:

Julia Henop

Spouse:

Phyllis Masten

child:

Eugene Reich

child:

Frances Reich