Mathematician:Arthur Norton Milgram

American mathematician who worked on functional analysis, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, partial differential equations, and Galois theory.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 3 June 1912, Philadelphia, US
 * Died: 30 January 1961

Theorems and Definitions

 * Lax-Milgram Theorem (with Peter Lax)
 * Babuška-Lax-Milgram Theorem (with Ivo M. Babuška and Peter Lax)
 * Lions-Lax-Milgram Theorem (with Jacques-Louis Lions and Peter Lax)


 * Also proved Dilworth's Theorem in 1947 (with Tibor Gallai) but failed to publish, and Robert P. Dilworth got there first.

Books and Papers

 * 1944: Translated and contributed to by Emil Artin
 * 1960: Verallgemeinerung eines graphentheoretischen Satzes von Rédei (with Tibor Gallai)
 * 1960: Verallgemeinerung eines graphentheoretischen Satzes von Rédei (with Tibor Gallai)