Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή, romanized: Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He also created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics. Carathéodory is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his era and the most renowned Greek mathematician since antiquity.
Constantin Carathéodory | |
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Constantin Carathéodory | |
| Born | 13 September 1873 |
| Died | 2 February 1950 (aged 76) Munich, West Germany |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin University of Göttingen |
| Known for | Carathéodory conjecture Carathéodory function Carathéodory metric Carathéodory theorems Carathéodory's criterion Carathéodory's lemma Carathéodory's positivity criterion for holomorphic functions Carathéodory's principle Carnot–Carathéodory metric Adiabatic accessibility Cyclic polytope Prime end General theory of outer measures Axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Calculus of variations Real analysis Complex analysis Measure theory |
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| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Minkowski |
| Doctoral students | Paul Finsler Hans Rademacher Georg Aumann Hermann Boerner Ernst Peschl Wladimir Seidel Nazım Terzioğlu Xu Ruiyun |
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