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Eberhard Hopf

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German mathematician (1902-1983)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1902 to 1983 · aged 81
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Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf was a German mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.

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1981Leroy P. Steele Prize
1971Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship

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Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf was a German mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry. The Hopf maximum principle is an early result of his (1927) that is one of the most important techniques in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.

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United States
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Academics
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deceased
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Lived 1902 to 1983 · aged 81
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