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Otto Hölder

Otto Ludwig Hölder
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Otto Hölder
Born (1859-12-22)22 December 1859
Stuttgart, Germany
Died 29 August 1937(1937-08-29) (aged 77)
Leipzig, Germany
Nationality German
Fields Mathematics
Doctoral advisor Paul du Bois-Reymond
Doctoral students Emil Artin
David Gilbarg
William Threlfall
Hermann Vermeil
Known for Hölder's inequality
Hölder mean

Otto Ludwig Hölder (December 22, 1859 – August 29, 1937) was a German mathematician born in Stuttgart.

Hölder first studied at the Polytechnikum (which today is the University of Stuttgart) and then in 1877 went to Berlin where he was a student of Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstraß, and Ernst Kummer.

He is noted for many theorems including: Hölder's inequality, the Jordan–Hölder theorem, the theorem stating that every linearly ordered group that satisfies an Archimedean property is isomorphic to a subgroup of the additive group of real numbers, the classification of simple groups of order up to 200, the anomalous outer automorphisms of the symmetric group S6 and Hölder's theorem which implies that the Gamma function satisfies no algebraic differential equation. Another idea related to his name is the Hölder condition (or Hölder continuity) which is used in many areas of analysis, including the theories of partial differential equations and function spaces.


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