Ernst Hellinger

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Ernst Hellinger was a German mathematician known for his contributions to functional analysis and measure theory, including work that led to the concept now called the Hellinger distance.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
academicAdvisor David Hilbert
areaOfInfluence probability theory
quantum mechanics
statistics
coAuthor Otto Toeplitz
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Germany
educatedAt University of Breslau
University of Göttingen
employer Northwestern University
University of Frankfurt
University of Göttingen
ethnicGroup Jewish people
linked to: Jews
familyName Hellinger
fieldOfWork functional analysis
integral equations
mathematics
measure theory
operator theory
givenName Ernst
hasGender male
hasNotableMetricNamedAfter Hellinger distance
hasNotableTheoremNamedAfter Hellinger–Toeplitz theorem
influencedBy David Hilbert
Felix Klein
Hermann Minkowski
knownFor development of Hellinger distance in probability and statistics
foundational work in functional analysis
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf German Mathematical Society
name Ernst Hellinger
notableConcept Hellinger distance
Hellinger integral
Hellinger–Toeplitz theorem
notableEvent dismissal from his university position under Nazi racial laws
emigration to the United States
notableStudent Irving Kaplansky
Paul Halmos
notableWork contributions to the theory of quadratic forms in infinitely many variables
papers on measure-theoretic foundations of probability
work on Hilbert space theory
occupation university teacher
placeOfBirth Province of Silesia
Striegau
placeOfDeath Evanston, Illinois
workLocation Evanston, Illinois
Frankfurt am Main

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Hellinger distance namedAfter Ernst Hellinger
Adolf Hurwitz notableStudent Ernst Hellinger
Ernst Hellinger name Ernst Hellinger