Rudolf Lipschitz

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Rudolf Lipschitz
Rudolf Lipschitz
Born	May 14, 1832
Died	October 7, 1903
Nationality	Germany
Fields	mathematics
Institutions	University of Bonn
Doctoral advisor	Peter Gustav Dirichlet
Doctoral students	Felix Klein

Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (May 14, 1832 – October 7, 1903) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bonn from 1864. Peter Gustav Dirichlet was his teacher. He supervised the early work of Felix Klein.

While Lipschitz gave his name to the Lipschitz continuity condition, he worked in a broad range of areas. These included number theory, algebras with involution, mathematical analysis, differential geometry and classical mechanics.

He wrote: Lehrbuch der Analysis (two volumes, Bonn 1877, 1880); Wissenschaft und Staat (Bonn, 1874); Untersuchungen über die Summen von Quadraten (Bonn, 1886); Bedeutung der theoretischen Mechanik (Berlin, 1876).

[edit] See also

Lipschitz constant
Lipschitz's integral
Lipschitz integral condition

[edit] External links

O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Rudolf Lipschitz”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Rudolf Lipschitz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
H. Kortum. 1903 Obituary. In Jahresbericht DMV 16 56-59. Retrieved on 16 July, 2006. (digitalized document, provided without fee by Göttingen Digitalization Project, in German)