Nationality German Name Oskar Perron Fields Mathematics Notable students Georgi Bradistilov | Alma mater University of Munich Role Mathematician Doctoral advisor Ferdinand von Lindemann | |
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Born May 7, 1880
Frankenthal ( 1880-05-07 ) Institutions University of Heidelberg
University of Munich Doctoral students Josef Heinhold
Helmut Rohrl
Hermann Schmidt
Georgi Bradistilov Died February 22, 1975, Munich, Germany Education Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich People also search for Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Ferdinand von Lindemann, 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 Kettenbruchen. He introduced Perron's paradox:
Let N be the largest integer. If N > 1, then N2 > N, contradicting the definition of N. Hence N = 1to illustrate the danger of assuming that the solution of an optimization problem exists.
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