Constantin Carathéodory, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Constantin Carathéodory

Greek mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1873

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1950

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Greece, Germany, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Constantin Carathéodory (Greek: ???sta?t???? ?a?a?e?d??? Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany.
He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory.
His work also includes important results in conformal representations and in the theory of boundary correspondence.
In 1909, Carathéodory pioneered the Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.