Background
He was born in Germany and studied at the University of Berlin until 1934 when he moved to United States of America.
He was born in Germany and studied at the University of Berlin until 1934 when he moved to United States of America.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Columbia University on a thesis entitled Systems of Algebraic Mixed Difference Equations advised by Joseph Ritt (1934).
Together they solved an important electric power problem on balancing dynamos, which had remained open since the days of Michael Faraday a century before. Herzog died at East Lansing of prostate cancer. He had a wife named Helen (nee" Korngold) Herzog.