Erhard Schmidt | |
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Born | |
Died | 6 December 1959 | (aged 83)
Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
Known for | Schmidt decomposition Gram–Schmidt process Hilbert–Schmidt operator Hilbert–Schmidt integral operator Singular value |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Thesis | Entwickelung willkürlicher Functionen nach Systemen vorgeschriebener (1905) |
Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert[1] |
Doctoral students | Salomon Bochner Alfred Brauer Richard Brauer Lothar Collatz Alexander Dinghas Michael Golomb Guido Hoheisel Eberhard Hopf Heinz Hopf Martin Kneser Wilhelm Specht |
Erhard Schmidt (13 January 1876 – 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century.[2] Schmidt was born in Tartu (German: Dorpat), in the Governorate of Livonia (now Estonia).