Henry O. Pollak: key obituary facts
Is Henry O. Pollak dead? Yes. Henry O. Pollak died on July 8, 2026, at age 98.
Cause of death: Henry O. Pollak's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Henry O. Pollak known for?
He was an Austrian-American mathematician.
More about Henry O. Pollak
Born: 13 December 1927.
Place of birth: Vienna.
Gender: male.
Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, statistician.
Nationality: United States, Austria.
Education: Harvard University, Yale University.
Employer: Columbia University.
Awards: honorary doctorate at the Laval University.
Also known as: Henry Otto Pollak, Henry Pollak.
Known for: Contributions to information theory.
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Pollak, the Austrian–American mathematician, died on July 8, 2026, aged 98. Born Henry Otto Pollak in Vienna on December 13, 1927, he was educated at Yale University and Harvard University.
Pollak’s work spanned operator theory, signal analysis, graph theory, and computational geometry, and he also contributed to information theory. He taught in the mathematics department at Columbia University and worked at Bell Labs, where he later became director of the Mathematics and Statistics Research Center.