Mathematician:Ivar Otto Bendixson

Mathematician

Swedish mathematician who worked mainly in the fields of set theory, analysis and differential equations.

Nationality

Swedish

History

• Born: 1 August 1861 in Bergshyddan, Djurgården, Sweden
• Died: 1935

Theorems

• Cantor-Bendixson Derivative (with Georg Cantor)
• Cantor-Bendixson Rank (with Georg Cantor)

• Bendixson-Dulac Theorem (with Henri Claudius Rosaris Dulac)
• Poincaré-Bendixson Theorem (with Jules Henri Poincaré)

Results named for Ivar Otto Bendixson can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ivar Otto Bendixson can be found here.

Publications

• 1901: Sur les courbes définies par des équations différentielles (Acta Math. Vol. 24, no. 1: pp. 1 – 88)

Sources

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