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Karl Frithiof Sundman (28 October 1873, in in two papers published in 1907 and 1909. His results gained fame when they were reproduced in ''Acta Mathematica'' in 1912. He also published a paper on
Karl Frithiof Sundman (28 October 1873, in Kaskinen
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– 28 September 1949, in Helsinki
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) was a Finnish
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mathematician
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regularization
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in 1912.
Awards, recognition
Sundman was awarded the Pontécoulant prize by theFrench Academy of Science
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in 1913 for this work. In 1908 Sundman was elected member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
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and in 1947 foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The crater Sundman on the Moon
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is named after him, as is the asteroid 1424 Sundmania
1424 Sundmania ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a large asteroid and rather slow rotator from the background population of the outer regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 9 January 1937, by astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at the Turku Ob ...
.
See also
* Qiudong Wang generalized Sundman's solution to the case of more than three bodies In the 1990s..References
Sources
* Järnefelt, G.: "Karl Fridhiof Sundman." ''Soc. Sci. Fenn. Arsbok'' 30 (2) (1953), 1–13. * Järnefelt, G.: "Karl F. Sundman in Memoriam." ''Acta Mathematica'' 83 (1950), i–vi. *Barrow-Green, June (2010). "The dramatic episode of Sundman. ''Historia Mathematica'', 37 (2): 164-203. 1873 births 1949 deaths Finnish mathematicians Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences {{Europe-mathematician-stub