- Ernst Leonard Lindelöf
Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, (
7 March 1870 –4 June 1946 ) was a Finnish topologist after whomLindelöf space is named; he was the son ofLeonard Lorenz Lindelöf and brother of thephilologist Uno Lorenz Lindelöf .Lindelöf studied at the
University of Helsinki , where he completed hisPh.D. in 1893, became adocent in 1895 andprofessor of Mathematics in 1903. He was a member of theFinnish Society of Sciences and Letters .In addition to working on mathematical topics as diverse as
differential equation s and thegamma function , Lindelöf actively promoted the study of the history of Finnish mathematics.ee also
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Lindelöf hypothesis
*Lindelöf's lemma
*Lindelöf space
*Lindelöf's theorem
*Phragmén-Lindelöf principle
*Picard-Lindelöf theorem elected bibliography
*"Le calcul des résidus et ses applications à la théorie des fonctions (Paris, 1905)
*"Mémoire sur la théorie des fonctions entiéres d'ordre fini ("Acta societatis scientiarum fennicae" 31, 1903)"
*WithLars Edvard Phragmén : "Sur une extension d'un principe classique de l'analyse et sur quelques propriétés des fonctions monogènes dans le voisinage d'un point singulier", in: "Acta mathematica " 31, 1908.External links
*MacTutor Biography|id=Lindelof
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