Constantin Carathéodory (13 September 1873 to 2 February 1950) 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, and created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics. He is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his era and the most renowned Greek mathematician since antiquity. He was born in Berlin to Greek parents and grew up in Brussels; his father Stephanos was a lawyer who served as Ottoman ambassador to Belgium, St Petersburg and Berlin, and his mother Despina Petrokokkinos came from the island of Chios. He had about twenty doctoral students, among them Hans Rademacher and Paul Finsler, and Albert Einstein contacted him for clarifications on the Hamilton-Jacobi equation.
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Source Borel-Caratheodory theorem - Wikipedia
Source Caratheodory's theorem (convex hull) (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Constantin Carathéodory
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He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory.
2. MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews: Constantin Carathéodory
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13 September 1873
Paul Finsler (Wikipedia)
Mentored: Paul Finsler, LeadQuote, Mentored: Paul Finsler, Lead
where he received his Ph.D. in 1919 under the supervision of Constantin Carath
Caratheodory's theorem (convex hull) (Wikipedia)
Principal Result: Caratheodory's Theorem (Convex Geometry), Lead sentence of the article on the result
The result is named for Constantin Carathéodory, who proved the theorem in 1911 for the case when P {\displaystyle P} is compact.
Principal Result: Carathéodory's Theorem (Convex Hull), Lead sentence of the article on the result
The result is named for Constantin Carathéodory, who proved the theorem in 1911 for the case when P {\displaystyle P} is compact.
Proofs Credited: Caratheodory's Theorem (Convex Geometry), Lead
The result is named for Constantin Carathéodory, who proved the theorem in 1911
Proofs Credited: Carathéodory's Theorem (Convex Hull), Lead
The result is named for Constantin Carathéodory, who proved the theorem in 1911
View the SourceBorel-Caratheodory theorem - Wikipedia
Principal Result: Borel-Caratheodory Theorem, Lead sentence of the article on the result
It is named for Émile Borel and Constantin Carathéodory.
Proofs Credited: Borel-Caratheodory Theorem, Lead
It is named for Émile Borel and Constantin Carathéodory.
View the SourceCarathéodory conjecture (Wikipedia)
Conjectures Posed: Caratheodory Conjecture, LeadQuote, Conjectures Posed: Caratheodory Conjecture, Lead
In differential geometry, the Carathéodory conjecture is a mathematical conjecture attributed to Constantin Carathéodory by Hans Ludwig Hamburger, stating that any convex, closed and sufficiently smooth surface in three dimensional Euclidean space must admit at least two umbilic points.
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