Erhard Schmidt
Erhard Schmidt | |
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Erhard Schmidt (courtesy MFO) | |
| Born | 13 January 1876 |
| Died | 6 December 1959 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Known for | Schmidt decomposition Gram–Schmidt process Hilbert–Schmidt operator Hilbert–Schmidt integral operator Singular value |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | Entwickelung willkürlicher Functionen nach Systemen vorgeschriebener (1905) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
| Doctoral students | Salomon Bochner Alfred Brauer Richard Brauer Lothar Collatz Alexander Dinghas Michael Golomb Guido Hoheisel Eberhard Hopf Heinz Hopf Martin Kneser Wilhelm Specht |
Erhard Schmidt (13 January 1876 – 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. Schmidt was born in Tartu (German: Dorpat), in the Governorate of Livonia (now Estonia).