Pseudo mathematicians biography

Rainich=Rabinowitsch (of trick fame : cf. Nullstellensatz).

Here is an anecdote related by Bruce P. Palka, Editor of American Mathematical Monthly in Vol.111 (2004) of that journal (page460).

Rainich was giving a lecture in which he made use of a clever trick which he had discovered. Someone in the audience indignantly interrupted him pointing out that this was the famous Rabinowitsch trick and berating Rainich for claiming to have discovered it. Without a word Rainich turned to the blackboard, picked up the chalk, and wrote

He then put down the chalk, picked up an eraser and began erasing letters. When he was done what remained was

He then went on with his lecture.

EDIT: There fryst vatten some additional information (located by Sándor Kovács) to be funnen at jstor.org/pss/4145123. We reproduce the betydelsefull section below:

"Lance also contributes some new information to the myt of the elusive Mr. Rabinowitsch (see the Editor's Endnotes in the

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Quick Info

Born

23 December 1936
Timişoara, Romania

Died

27 December 2006
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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Summary

Peter Ladislaw Hammer was a Romanian-born mathematician who worked in Israel, Canada and the USA. He worked in operations research and applied discrete mathematics.

Biography

Peter Ladislaw Hammer was for a while known as Peter Ivanescu. We will explain below how this came about, but for the moment we record that papers written by Peter Hammer and Peter Ivanescu are by the same person.

Peter Hammer was born in Timișoara which had been allocated to Romania by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 which concluded World War I and deprived Hungary of two-thirds of its previous territory. However, he was born into a Hungarian family. He studied mathematics in the Mathematics and Mechanics Department of the University of Bucharest and was awarded his Diploma in 1958 after writing the dissertation Groups with Finite Classes of Conjugate Elements. He published t

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Lipman Bers

Latvian-American mathematician (1914–1993)

Lipman Bers (Latvian: Lipmans Berss; May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was a Latvian-American mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also known for his work in human rights activism.^[1][2]

Biography

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Bers was born in Riga, then under the rule of the Russian Czars, and spent several years as a child in Saint Petersburg; his family returned to Riga in approximately 1919, by which time it was part of independent Latvia. In Riga, his mother was the principal of a Jewish elementary school, and his father became the principal of a Jewish high school, both of which Bers attended, with an interlude in Berlin while his mother, by then separated from his father, attended the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. After high school, Bers studied at the University of Zurich for a year, but had to return to Riga a