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Konstantinos Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He also created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics. Carathéodory is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his era and the most renowned Greek mathematician since ant…
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science · Greek mathematician (1873–1950) · mathematician · university teacher · also Konstantinos Carathéodory, Constantin Carathéodory, Constantin Caratheodory, Carathéodory
Born 13 September 1873 · Died 2 February 1950 · Q65332
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In recognition of his achievements, the LMU Munich named one of the largest lecture rooms in the mathematical institute the Constantin-Carathéodory Lecture Hall
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-02-02.
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1936· 1 entry
It was he who handed out the first ever Fields Medals at the meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo, Norway
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1926· 1 entry
Gave a strict and general proof that no system of lenses and mirrors can avoid aberration, except for the trivial case of plane mirrors
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1924· 1 entry
Carathéodory was appointed professor of mathematics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), and held this position until retirement in 1938
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1920· 1 entry
Carathéodory was appointed dean of the university and took a major part in establishing the institution, touring Europe to buy books and equipment
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1909· 1 entry
Published a pioneering work "Investigations on the Foundations of Thermodynamics" in which he formulated the second law of thermodynamics axiomatically, that is, without the use of Carnot engines and refrigerators and
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1897· 1 entry
A war broke out between the Ottoman Empire and Greece
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1886· 1 entry
Entered the high school Athénée Royal d'Ixelles and studied there until his graduation in 1891
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1885· 1 entry
Attended a grammar school for a year where he first began to become interested in mathematics
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1879· 1 entry
Karl Weierstrass added a fourth that does indeed guarantee such a quantity exists
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1875· 1 entry
Went to Brussels when Stephanos was appointed there as Ottoman Ambassador
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1873· 2 entries
Born 1873-09-13.
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In Berlin to Greek parents and grew up in Brussels
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