ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Otto Ludwig Hölder

German mathematician most famous for his work in analysis (in particular Fourier series) and group theory.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 22 Dec 1859, Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany)
• Died: 29 Aug 1937, Leipzig, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Hölder Mean
• Jordan-Hölder Theorem‎ (with Camille Jordan)
• Hölder's Inequality (Special Case)

Books and Papers

• 1882: Beiträge zur Potentialtheorie (Contributions to Potential Theory)

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Otto Ludwig Hölder": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive