Fritz Herzog

{{short description|American mathematician}}

Fritz Herzog (6 December 1902 to 21 November 2001[https://www.ams.org/notices/200206/inside.pdf Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 49, no. 6, p.694 (2002)]) was an American mathematician, known for his work in

complex analysis and power series.

He was born in Germany and studied at the University of Berlin until 1934 when he moved to United States.

He received his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University on a thesis entitled Systems of Algebraic Mixed Difference Equations

advised by Joseph Ritt (1934).[http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=15598 entry] at Mathematics Genealogy Project

Herzog was an electrical engineering research associate at Cornell University (1938–43), working with

Michel G. Malti on dynamo research. Together they solved an important electric power problem on balancing dynamos, which had remained open since the days of Michael Faraday a century before.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/03/13/archives/dynamo-balance-found-at-cornell-problem-left-by-faraday-is-solved.html?sq=michel+malti&scp=2&st=p | title=DYNAMO 'BALANCE' FOUND AT CORNELL; Problem Left by Faraday Is Solved ... | date = 13 March 1939 | work= New York Times |accessdate=2008-06-27}}{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/237541992.html?dids=237541992:237541992&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+13%2C+1939&author=By+the+Associated+Press.&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1877-1954)&edition=&startpage=2&desc=Cornell+Scientists+Find+New+Way+to+%27Balance%27+Dynamos |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131175036/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/237541992.html?dids=237541992:237541992&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+13,+1939&author=By+the+Associated+Press.&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1877-1954)&edition=&startpage=2&desc=Cornell+Scientists+Find+New+Way+to+'Balance'+Dynamos |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |title=Cornell Scientists Find New Way to 'Balance' Dynamos |date=13 March 1939 |newspaper=Washington Post |accessdate=2008-06-27 }}

Most of his career was spent at Michigan State University (1943–73) where he gave name to the

Fritz Herzog Prize Endowment Fund.

Herzog died at East Lansing of prostate cancer.

He had a wife named Helen (née' Korngold) Herzog.