ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Rudolf Lipschitz

Full name: Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz.

German mathematician who worked in many areas, including analysis, number theory and differential geometry.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 14 May 1832, Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
• Died: 7 Oct 1903, Bonn, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Lipschitz Condition and Lipschitz Constant
• Lipschitz Equivalence
• Lipschitz Continuity
• Lipschitz Quaternion
• Cauchy-Lipschitz Theorem (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)

Books and Papers

• 1874: Wissenschaft und Staat
• 1876: Bedeutung der theoretischen Mechanik
• 1877, 1880: Lehrbuch der Analysis
• 1886: Untersuchungen über die Summen von Quadraten

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Rudolf Lipschitz": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive