Karl F. Sundman

Karl Frithiof Sundman (28 October 1873, in Kaskinen – 28 September 1949, in Helsinki) was a Finnish mathematician[1] who used analytic methods to prove the existence of a convergent infinite series solution to the three-body problem in 1906 and 1909.[2][3][4] He also published a paper on regularization methods in mechanics in 1912.

Karl F. Sundman.

Awards, recognition

Sundman was awarded the Pontécoulant prize by the French Academy of Science in 1913 for this work.[1] In 1947, Sundman was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The crater Sundman on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 1424 Sundmania.

See also

References
  1. Karl Frithiof Sundman bio
  2. Sundman, K. (1912). "Mémoire sur le problème des trois corps". Acta Mathematica. 36: 105–179. doi:10.1007/BF02422379.
  3. Hockey, Thomas A.; et al. (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer. p. 1111. ISBN 978-0-387-30400-7.
  4. Barrow-Green, June (2010). "The dramatic episode of Sundman" (PDF). Historia Mathematica. 37 (2): 164–203. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2009.12.004.
  5. Babadzanjanz, L. K. (1979), "Existence of the continuations in the N-body problem", Celestial Mechanics, 20 (1): 43–57, Bibcode:1979CeMec..20...43B, doi:10.1007/BF01236607, MR 0538663, S2CID 120358878.
  6. Wang, Qiu Dong (1991), "The global solution of the n-body problem", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 50 (1): 73–88, Bibcode:1991CeMDA..50...73W, doi:10.1007/BF00048987, MR 1117788, S2CID 118132097.
  7. Babadzanjanz, L. K. (1993), "On the global solution of the N-body problem", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 56 (3): 427–449, Bibcode:1993CeMDA..56..427B, doi:10.1007/BF00691812, MR 1225892, S2CID 120617936.

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