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Konstantinos Carathéodory

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Also known as Constantin Caratheodory, Constantin Carathéodory

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
Languages spoken
French
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
place of burial
Munich Forest Cemetery
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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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