Mathematician:Kurt Otto Friedrichs

Mathematician

German applied mathematician whose major contribution was his work on partial differential equations.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 28 September 1901 in Kiel, Germany
• Died: 31 December 1982 in New Rochelle, New York, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy Condition (with Richard Courant and Hans Lewy)
• Friedrichs' Inequality

Results named for Kurt Otto Friedrichs can be found here.

Publications

• 1928: Über die partiellen Differenzengleichungen der mathematischen Physik (Math. Ann. Vol. 100, no. 1: pp. 32 – 74) (with Richard Courant and Hans Lewy)
• 1948: The dock problem (with Hans Lewy)
• 1953: Mathematical aspects of the quantum theory of fields
• 1955: Asymptotic phenomena in mathematical physics (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 61, no. 6: pp. 485 – 504)
• 1965: Perturbation of Spectra in Hilbert Space
• 1971: Fluid Dynamics (with Richard Edler von Mises)
• 1981: Spectral Theory of Operators in Hilbert Space

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Kurt Otto Friedrichs": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive