Mathematician:Arthur Norton Milgram

Mathematician

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

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

Publications

• 1942: Galois Theory (with Emil Artin)
  • 1944: Galois Theory, 2nd ed. (with Emil Artin)

• 1954: Parabolic Equations (Annals of Mathematics Studies  no. 33: pp. 167 – 190) (with Peter D. Lax)
• 1960: Verallgemeinerung eines graphentheoretischen Satzes von Rédei (with Tibor Gallai)