Mathematician:Erik Ivar Fredholm

Mathematician

Swedish mathematician best known for his work on integral equations and spectral theory.

Nationality

Swedish

History

• Born: 7 April 1866 in Stockholm, Sweden
• Died: 17 August 1927 in Danderyd, County of Stockholm, Sweden

Theorems and Definitions

• Fredholm Integral Equation
  • Fredholm Integral Equation of the First Kind
  • Fredholm Integral Equation of the Second Kind

• Fredholm Kernel
• Fredholm Operator
• Fredholm Theory

• Fredholm Alternative
• Fredholm's Theorem for Integral Equations

Results named for Erik Ivar Fredholm can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Erik Ivar Fredholm can be found here.

Publications

• 1890: On a special class of functions
• 1900: Sur une nouvelle méthode pour la résolution du problème de Dirichlet
• 1903: Sur une classe d'équations fonctionelles (Acta Math. Vol. 27: pp. 365 – 390)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Erik Ivar Fredholm": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fredholm's integral equations
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fredholm's integral equations