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Constantin Carathéodory

1873 - 1950

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Constantin Carathéodory (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή, romanized: Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He also created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics. Carathéodory is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his era and the most renowned Greek mathematician since antiquity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Constantin Carathéodory is the 255th most popular mathematician (down from 210th in 2019), the 1,398th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,288th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Mathematician.

Constantin Carathéodory is most famous for the theorem that states that a function is continuous if and only if it is bounded.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 255 out of 1,004. Before him are John Charles Fields, Anatoly Fomenko, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Paolo Ruffini, and Theodorus of Cyrene. After him are Richard von Mises, Ibn Yunus, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, and Leo Perutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 43. Before him are Thomas Curtis, Christian Rakovsky, Ivanoe Bonomi, Tullio Levi-Civita, Charles Péguy, and Hayim Nahman Bialik. After him are Robert Wiene, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Eliel Saarinen, Arnold van Gennep, Max Adler, and Jakob Wassermann. Among people deceased in 1950, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 41. Before him are Mao Anying, John Rabe, Emmanuel Mounier, Werner Haase, Kim Kyu-sik, and Axeman of New Orleans. After him are Eliel Saarinen, Milada Horáková, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Vasil Kolarov, Charles Koechlin, and Jan Smuts.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 1,398 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907), Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676), Christa Ludwig (1928), Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Hildegard Knef (1925), and Widukind of Corvey (925). After him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Walter Simons (1861), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 28. Before him are Johannes Trithemius (1462), Ernst Schröder (1841), Maria Reiche (1903), Thomas Abbt (1738), Robert Aumann (1930), and Ernst Zermelo (1871). After him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Michael Stifel (1487), and Hillel Furstenberg (1935).

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