Eberhard Hopf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eberhard Hopf

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1902

Place of Birth: Salzburg

Date of Death: 24-Jul-1983

Profession: astronomer, mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: United States, Austria, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (April 17, 1902 in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary – July 24, 1983 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a 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.