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Konstantinos Carathéodory
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Greek mathematician (1873-1950)
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Konstantinos Carathéodory was a male mathematician, physicist, and university teacher. He worked in the fields of calculus of variations, measure theory, real functions, and mathematics. His professional activities were associated with Germany, Greece, the United States, Poland, and the entity designated as XX.
He was born in 1873 and died in 1950. Carathéodory spoke German, Greek, and French.
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- Lifespan
- 1873–1950
- Nationality
- DE, GR, XX, US, PL
- Role / Field
- Vysokoskolsti ucitele, Matematycy, Matematici, Fizycy, Variacni pocet, Teorie miry
- Language
- ger, gre, fre
- Gender
- Male
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1873-09-13 ) 13 September 1873, Berlin , German Empire
- Died
- 2 February 1950 (1950-02-02) (aged 76), Munich , West Germany
- Citizenship
- Greek
- Alma mater
- Humboldt University of Berlin University of Göttingen
- Fields
- Calculus of variations Real analysis Complex analysis Measure theory
- Institutions
- University of Bonn Hannover Technical High School Breslau Technical High School University of Göttingen Humboldt University of Berlin LMU Munich National Technical University of Athens Ionian University of Smyrna
- Doctoral advisor
- Hermann Minkowski
- Doctoral students
- Paul Finsler Hans Rademacher Georg Aumann Hermann Boerner Ernst Peschl Wladimir Seidel Nazım Terzioğlu Xu Ruiyun
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Munich
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Carathéodory's theorem
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Hermann Minkowski
- Doctoral student
- René de Possel
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Caratheodory constantin.jpg
- Work location
- Munich
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- Commons category
- Constantin Caratheodory
- date of birth
- 1873-12-13
- date of death
- 1950-02-02
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- place of burial
- Munich Forest Cemetery
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Constantin Carathéodory
- ethnic group
- Ottoman Greeks
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Encyclopedic overview
Constantin Carathéodory (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή, romanized: Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 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. 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 antiquity.
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