Mathematician:Constantin Carathéodory

Otherwise known as Constantine Karatheodori (in Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή).

Greek mathematician who contributed to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations and measure theory.

Also worked on rationalisation of the theory of thermodynamics.

Nationality
Greek

History

 * Born: September 13, 1873, Berlin, Germany
 * Died: February 2, 1950, Munich, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Borel-Carathéodory Theorem
 * Carathéodory Conjecture
 * Carathéodory's Theorem (disambiguation needed)
 * Carathéodory-Jacobi-Lie Theorem (with Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi and Sophus Lie)
 * Carnot-Carathéodory Manifold
 * Carathéodory Metric
 * Carathéodory Condition

Books and Papers

 * 1909: Untersuchungen ueber die Grundlagen der Thermodynamik