Joseph Louis Lagrange

Joseph Louis Lagrange

male, deceased (1813)
from the Kingdom of Sardinia, from the Province of Turin, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Count of the First French Empire, Italian-French, French…Counts of the First French Empire, calculusofvariations, from Kingdom of Sardinia, Senate of France
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l'Empire (January 25, 1736 - April 10, 1813; b. Turin, baptised in the name of "Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia") was...
Gilbert Strang

Gilbert Strang

male (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mathematician, mathematics, American, Professor of Mathematics, calculusofvariations…Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, American Academy of Arts, Department of Mathematics
Gilbert Strang was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. His doctorate was from UCLA and since then he has...
Marston Morse

Marston Morse

male, deceased (1977)
Harvard University, Princeton University, Brown University, Cornell University, mathematician, Cornell University faculty…calculusofvariations
Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the...

Constantin Carathéodory

male, deceased (1950)
Greek-German, Measure Theory, Mathematical analyst, greek, Greek-germans, thermodynamicist…calculusofvariations, Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics, theory of functions of a real variable
Constantin Carathéodory (September 13, 1873 - February 2, 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of f...
Ernst Zermelo

Ernst Zermelo

male, deceased (1953)
Alumni of Freiburg University, set theory, philosopher, physics, mathematics, freiburg…International Congress of Mathematician, University of Berlin, calculusofvariations, foundations of mathematics
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and hence on...
Jesse Douglas

Jesse Douglas

male, deceased (1965)
inverse problem for Lagrangian mechanics, inverse problem of the calculus of variations, Columbia College of Columbia University, Columbia College, American, Fields Medalist…City College of New York, calculusofvariations, problem of Plateau
Jesse Douglas was an American mathematician. He was born in New York and attended Columbia College from 1920–1924. Douglas was one of two winners of...
Hans Hahn

Hans Hahn

male, deceased (1934)
Jewish person, calculusofvariations, real analysis, uniform boundedness principle, Hahn decomposition theorem, mathematician
Hans Hahn was an Austrian mathematician who made many contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real...
Gilbert Ames Bliss

Gilbert Ames Bliss

male, deceased (1951)
mathematician, Mathematical analyst, University of Chicago alumni, University of Chicago faculty, American, from Chicago…calculusofvariations
Gilbert Ames Bliss, was an American mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations.
Johann Radon

Johann Radon

male, deceased (1956)
Johann Karl August Radon, Děčín, Radon transform, scanner, University of Vienna, integral geometry…calculusofvariations
Johann Karl August Radon was a mathematician born in Tetschen (now Děčín) in Bohemia, Austria, (now Czech Republic). He wrote a doctoral dis...