Editing Gábor Szegő (section)

==Life==
[[File:George Polya and Gabor Szego in Berlin.jpg|thumb|Szegő with [[George Pólya]] in Berlin, delivering the manuscript of ''[[Problems and Theorems in Analysis]]'' to [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]].]]

Szegő was born in [[Kunhegyes]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (today [[Hungary]]), into a [[Jew]]ish family as the son of Adolf Szegő and Hermina Neuman.<ref name="kunhegy">[http://www.kunhegyes.hu/kunhegyes/hires/szego.htm Biography on the homepage of Kunhegyes] (in Hungarian)</ref> He married the chemist Anna Elisabeth Neményi in 1919, with whom he had two children.

In 1912 he started studies in [[mathematical physics]] at the [[University of Budapest]], with summer visits to the [[University of Berlin]] and the [[University of Göttingen]], where he attended lectures by [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius|Frobenius]] and [[David Hilbert|Hilbert]], amongst others. In Budapest he was taught mainly by [[Lipót Fejér|Fejér]], [[:hu:Beke Manó|Beke]], [[József Kürschák|Kürschák]] and Bauer<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.renyi.hu/~dezso/panorama/kantor.pdf| title = Biographies - Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (bios of Bauer Mihály and Beke Manó)}}</ref> and made the acquaintance of his future collaborators [[George Pólya]] and [[Michael Fekete]]. His studies were interrupted in 1915 by [[World War I]], in which he served in the infantry, artillery and air corps.
In 1918 while stationed in Vienna, he was awarded a [[doctorate]] by the [[University of Vienna]] for his work on [[Toeplitz matrix|Toeplitz determinants]].<ref>{{MathGenealogy |id=8363}}</ref><ref>[http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SzegoG.pdf Official memorial citation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325231306/http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SzegoG.pdf |date=2009-03-25 }}, [[Stanford University]].</ref> He received his [[Privat-Dozent]] from the University of Berlin in 1921, where he stayed until being appointed as successor to [[Konrad Knopp|Knopp]] at the [[University of Königsberg]] in 1926.  Intolerable working conditions during the [[Nazi regime]] resulted in a temporary position at the [[Washington University in St. Louis]], [[Missouri]] in 1936, before his appointment as chairman of the mathematics department at [[Stanford University]] in 1938, where he helped build up the department until his retirement in 1966.  He died in [[Palo Alto, California]]. His doctoral students include [[Paul C. Rosenbloom|Paul Rosenbloom]] and [[Joseph L. Ullman|Joseph Ullman]]. The Gábor Szegö Prize, Szegő Gábor Primary School, and Szegő Gábor Matematikaverseny (a mathematics competition in his former school) are all named in his honor.