Erhard Schmidt

Erhard Schmidt
Erhard Schmidt (courtesy MFO)
Born(1876-01-13)13 January 1876
Died6 December 1959(1959-12-06) (aged 83)
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Known forSchmidt decomposition
Gram–Schmidt process
Hilbert–Schmidt operator
Hilbert–Schmidt integral operator
Singular value
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Thesis Entwickelung willkürlicher Functionen nach Systemen vorgeschriebener  (1905)
Doctoral advisorDavid Hilbert[1]
Doctoral studentsSalomon Bochner
Alfred Brauer
Richard Brauer
Lothar Collatz
Alexander Dinghas
Michael Golomb
Guido Hoheisel
Eberhard Hopf
Heinz Hopf
Martin Kneser
Wilhelm Specht

Erhard Schmidt (13 January 1876 – 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century.[2] Schmidt was born in Tartu (German: Dorpat), in the Governorate of Livonia (now Estonia).

  1. ^ Erhard Schmidt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Erhard Schmidt", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

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