Erhard Schmidt (January 13, 1876 - December 6, 1959) was a Germanmathematician born in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia). January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Image of Tartu street Tartu (German, Polish Dorpat, Russian Юpьeв Yuryev) is the second largest city of Estonia, with its population of 101,246 (the Population Census data is from 2000) in an area of 38. ... Image of Tartu street Tartu (German/Polish/Swedish/Danish: Dorpat) is the second largest city of Estonia, with a population of 100,482 (census data as of 2004) with an area of 38. ...
Together with David Hilbert he is considered to be one of the founders of modern abstract functional analysis. David Hilbert David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician born in Wehlau, near Königsberg, Prussia (now Znamensk, near Kaliningrad, Russia) who is recognized as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Functional analysis is that branch of mathematics and specifically of analysis which is concerned with the study of spaces of functions. ...
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Gram-Schmidt process
In mathematics and numerical analysis, the Gram-Schmidt process of linear algebra is a method of orthogonalizing a set of vectors in an inner product space, most commonly the Euclidean space Rn. ...
Erhard's university career followed a pattern which was common in Germany at this time, namely that students studied at several different universities as their course progressed.
Schmidt published a two part paper on integral equations in 1907 in which he reproved Hilbert's results in a simpler fashion, and also with less restrictions.
Schmidt's interest in topology influenced Hopf and, in 1929, he was an examiner of Hopf's doctoral thesis.
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