Mathematician:Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz

Mathematician

German mathematician who worked in many areas, including analysis, number theory and differential geometry.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 14 May 1832, Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
• Died: 7 Oct 1903, Bonn, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Lipschitz Continuity, Lipschitz Condition and Lipschitz Constant
• Lipschitz Equivalence
• Lipschitz Norm
• Lipschitz Quaternion
• Lipschitz Seminorm
• Lipschitz Space

• Dini-Lipschitz Criterion (with Ulisse Dini)

• Cauchy-Lipschitz Theorem (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)

Results named for Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz can be found here.

Publications

• 1874: Wissenschaft und Staat
• 1876: Bedeutung der theoretischen Mechanik
• 1877, 1880: Lehrbuch der Analysis
• 1886: Untersuchungen über die Summen von Quadraten

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive