Mathematician:Erhard Schmidt

Mathematician

Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 13 January 1876 in Dorpat, Estonia (Russian Empire) (now Tartu, Estonia)
• Died: 16 December 1959 in Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization, also known as Gram-Schmidt Orthonormalization, or the Gram-Schmidt Process (with Jørgen Pedersen Gram)
• Hilbert-Schmidt Norm (with David Hilbert)
• Hilbert-Schmidt Operator (with David Hilbert)
• Lyapunov-Schmidt Reduction (with Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov)
• Schmidt Decomposition
• Hilbert-Schmidt Integral Operator (with David Hilbert)
• Krull-Schmidt Theorem (with Wolfgang Krull)

Results named for Erhard Schmidt can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Erhard Schmidt can be found here.

Publications

• 1918: Co-founder of Mathematische Zeitschrift, with Konrad Knopp and Issai Schur
• 1929: On certainty in mathematics
• 1948: founder of Mathematische Nachrichten

Sources

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

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gram-Schmidt method
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gram-Schmidt method