Oskar Perron
| Oskar Perron | |
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Perron in 1948
Photo courtesy MFO |
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| Born |
May 7, 1880 Frankenthal |
| Died | February 22, 1975 (aged 94) Munich |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Heidelberg University of Munich |
| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Ferdinand von Lindemann |
| Doctoral students |
Josef Heinhold Helmut Röhrl Hermann Schmidt Georgi Bradistilov |
Oskar Perron (7 May 1880 – 22 February 1975) 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:
to illustrate the danger of assuming that the solution of an optimization problem exists.
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