Mathematician:Eduard Helly

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Mathematician

Austrian mathematician working mainly in topology and functional analysis.

Proved special cases of the Hahn-Banach Theorem and Banach-Steinhaus Theorem, but remained unrecognised for these at the time.


Nationality

Austrian


History

  • Born: 1 June 1884 in Vienna, Austria
  • Died: 28 November 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA


Theorems and Definitions

  • Results named for Eduard Helly can be found here.
  • Definitions of concepts named for Eduard Helly can be found here.


Publications

  • 1912: Über lineare Funktionaloperationen (Wien. Ber. Vol. 121: pp. 265 – 297)
  • 1923: Über Mengen konvexer Körper mit gemeinschaftlichen Punkten (J. Deutsche Math.-Ver. Vol. 32: pp. 175 – 176) (in which Helly's Theorem is presented)


Sources