Oskar Perron
Mathematician, Academic
1880 – 1975
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Who was Oskar Perron?
Oskar Perron was a German mathematician.
He was a professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1914 to 1922 and at the University of Munich from 1922 to 1951. He made numerous contributions to differential equations and partial differential equations, including the Perron method to solve the Dirichlet problem for elliptic partial differential equations. He wrote an encyclopedic book on continued fractions Die Lehre von den Kettenbrüchen. He introduced Perron's paradox:²
to illustrate the danger of assuming that the solution of an optimization problem exists.
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- Born
- May 7, 1880
Frankenthal - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Died
- Feb 22, 1975
Munich
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on July 23, 2013
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