Mathematician:Alfréd Haar

Mathematician

Hungarian mathematician who best known for his work on analysis on groups.

Introduced the Haar measure.

Nationality

Hungarian

History

• Born: 11 October 1885 in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
• Died: 16 March 1933 in Szeged, Hungary

Theorems and Definitions

• Haar Measure
  • Left Haar Measure

• Haar Space
• Haar Transform
• Haar Wavelet
• Haar's Tauberian Theorem

Results named for Alfréd Haar can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Alfréd Haar can be found here.

Publications

• 1910: Zur Theorie der orthogonalen Funktionensysteme (Math. Ann. Vol. 69: pp. 331 – 371)
• 1918: Die Minkowskische Geometrie und die Annäherung an stetige Funktionen (Math. Ann. Vol. 78: pp. 294 – 311)

Also known as

Some sources cite him as Alfred Haar.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Alfréd Haar": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive