Karl F. Sundman
Finnish mathematician (1873–1949)
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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 two papers published in 1907[2] and 1909.[3] His results gained fame when they were reproduced in Acta Mathematica in 1912.[4] He also published a paper on regularization methods in mechanics in 1912.
Awards, recognition
Sundman was awarded the Pontécoulant prize by the French Academy of Sciences in 1913 for his work on the 3-body problem.[1] In 1908, Sundman was elected member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters[5] and in 1947 foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[6] The crater Sundman on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 1424 Sundmania.
See also
- Qiudong Wang generalized Sundman's solution to the case of more than three bodies In the 1990s.[7][8][9]
