Ernst Leonard Lindelöf

Ernst Lindelof
Born 7 March 1870
Helsinki
Died 4 June 1946 (1946-06-05) (aged 76)
Helsinki
Nationality Finnish
Fields Mathematics
Alma mater University of Helsinki (Ph.D., 1893)
Thesis Sur les systèmes complets et le calcul des invariants différentiels des groupes continus finis (1893)
Doctoral advisor Hjalmar Mellin
Known for Lindelöf hypothesis
Lindelöf's lemma
Lindelöf's theorem
Lindelöf space
Phragmén–Lindelöf principle
Picard–Lindelöf theorem

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (7 March 1870 4 June 1946) was a Finnish mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology. Lindelöf spaces are named after him. He was the son of Lorenz Leonard Lindelöf and brother of the philologist Uno Lorenz Lindelöf.

Biography

Lindelöf studied at the University of Helsinki, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1893, became a docent in 1895 and professor of Mathematics in 1903. He was a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.

In addition to working in a number of different mathematical domains including complex analysis, conformal mapping, topology, ordinary differential equations and the gamma function, Lindelöf promoted the study of the history of Finnish mathematics. He is known for the Picard–Lindelöf theorem on differential equations and the Phragmén–Lindelöf principle, one of several refinements of the maximum modulus principle that he proved in complex function theory.

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