Erhard Schmidt
Erhard Schmidt (courtesy MFO)
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	Georg-August University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor	David Hilbert
Doctoral students	Salomon Bochner Richard Brauer Heinz Hopf

Erhard Schmidt (January 13, 1876 – December 6, 1959) was a German mathematician born in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia). His advisor was David Hilbert and he was awarded his doctorate from Georg-August University of Göttingen in 1905.

Together with David Hilbert he made important contributions to functional analysis.

[edit] See also

• Gram-Schmidt process
• Hilbert-Schmidt operator^[1]

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Joseph Diestel, Hans Jarchow, Andrew Tonge, Absolutely summing operators, Cambridge University Press 1995, p. 90-91. ISBN 978-0521431682

[edit] External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Erhard Schmidt", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schmidt.html .
• Erhard Schmidt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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