Lipschitz
Lipschitz, Lipshitz, or Lipchitz is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz).
The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz (Lifschitz), Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lipshits, Lopshits, Lipschutz (Lipschütz), Lipshutz, Lüpschütz; Libschitz; Livshits; Lifszyc, Lipszyc. It is commonly Anglicized as Lipton, and less commonly as Lipington.
In mathematics, the name can be used to describe a function that satisfies the Lipschitz condition, a strong form of continuity, named after Rudolf Lipschitz.
The surname may refer to:
People
- Daniel Lipšic, former Minister of Interior in Slovakia
- Israel Lipschitz (1782–1860), rabbi and biblical scholar
- Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973), Cubist sculptor
- Lippy Lipshitz (1903–1980), South African sculptor, painter and printmaker
- Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), German mathematician
- Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher, born as Imre Lipschitz
- Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, born as Ralph Lifshitz
- Hal Linden, American actor, and television personality, born Harold Lipschitz
- Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972), Russian–US mathematician
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