Oliver Dimon Kellogg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mathematician
Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1878
Place of Birth: Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 26-Jul-1932
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Oliver Dimon Kellogg
- Oliver Dimon Kellogg (10 July 1878 – 27 August 1932) was an American mathematician.His father, Day Otis Kellogg, was a professor of literature at the University of Kansas and editor of the American edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
- In 1895 Oliver Kellogg began his undergraduate study at Princeton University, where he earned his master's degree in 1900.
- With a John S.
- Kennedy stipend he first studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then in 1901/1902 at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
- At Göttingen in 1902 he earned his PhD with a thesis Zur Theorie der Integralgleichungen und des Dirichlet'schen Prinzips under the direction of David Hilbert.
- After completing his thesis, Kellogg became an instructor at Princeton and from 1905 at the University of Missouri, where he became a professor in 1910.
- In World War I he was a scientific advisor at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, where he worked on submarine detection.
- Kellogg became a lecturer at Harvard University in 1919, an associate professor in 1920, and a professor in 1927.
- He died of a heart attack while climbing Doubletop Mountain near Greenville, Maine.
- Kellogg was married and had a daughter. Kellogg is known for his work on potential theory, which was the subject of his dissertation and also his famous 1929 textbook Foundations of Potential Theory.
- In 1922 with George David Birkhoff he generalized the Brouwer fixed point theorem to the theorem of Birkhoff–Kellogg. Among his doctoral students was Arthur Copeland.
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