Mathematician:Otto Ludwig Hölder

Mathematician

German mathematician most famous for his work in analysis (in particular Fourier series) and group theory.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 22 Dec 1859, Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany)
• Died: 29 Aug 1937, Leipzig, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Hölder Mean
• Jordan-Hölder Theorem‎ (with Camille Jordan)

• Hölder's Inequality:
  • Hölder's Inequality for Integrals
  • Hölder's Inequality for Sums

Results named for Otto Ludwig Hölder can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Otto Ludwig Hölder can be found here.

Publications

• 1882: Beiträge zur Potentialtheorie (Contributions to Potential Theory)

Sources

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

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Hölder's inequality
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Hölder's inequality