Mathematician:Jørgen Pedersen Gram

Mathematician

Danish actuary and mathematician working mostly in the field of statistics.

Killed by a bicycle.

Nationality

Danish

History

• Born: 27 June 1850 in Nustrup, Denmark
• Died: 29 April 1916 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Theorems and Definitions

• Gram's Theorem
• Gramian Matrix
• Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization, also known as Gram-Schmidt Orthonormalization, or the Gram-Schmidt Process (with Erhard Schmidt)

Results named for Jørgen Pedersen Gram can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Jørgen Pedersen Gram can be found here.

Publications

• 1874: Sur quelques théorèmes fondamentaux de l'algebre moderne
• 1879: On series expansions determined by the methods of least squares
• 1884: Undersøgelser angaaende Maengden af Primtal under en given Graeense (Det K. Videnskabernes Selskab Vol. 2: pp. 183 – 308)

Also known as

Some sources present his first name as Jorgen, but this appears to be a mistake.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Jørgen Pedersen Gram": 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