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Karl Frithiof Sundman (28 October 1873, in Kaskinen – 28 September 1949, in in two papers published in 1907 and 1909. His results gained fame when they were reproduced in ''
Karl Frithiof Sundman (28 October 1873, in Kaskinen – 28 September 1949, in Helsinki
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) was a Finnish mathematician
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Acta Mathematica
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'' in 1912. He also published a paper on regularization methods in mechanics
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in 1912.
Awards, recognition
Sundman was awarded the Pontécoulant prize by theFrench Academy of Sciences
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in 1913 for his work on the 3-body problem. 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
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. The crater Sundman on the Moon
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is named after him, as is the asteroid 1424 Sundmania.
See also
*Qiudong Wang
Qiudong Wang is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, the University of Arizona. In 1982, he received a B.S. at Nanjing University and in 1994 a Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati.
Wang is best known for his 1991 paper ''The global ...
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 People from Kaskinen {{Europe-mathematician-stub