Eberhard Hopf
Mathematician, Academic
1902 – 1983
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Who was Eberhard Hopf?
Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf was a mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry. The Hopf maximum principle is an early result of his which is one of the most important techniques in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.
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- Born
- Apr 4, 1902
Salzburg - Nationality
- Austria
- Germany
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Technical University of Berlin
- Lived in
- Germany
- Died
- Jul 24, 1983
Bloomington
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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