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 NERFINISHED
areaOfInfluence probability theory
quantum mechanics
statistics
coAuthor Otto Toeplitz NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship German Empire NERFINISHED
Germany
educatedAt University of Breslau NERFINISHED
University of Göttingen
employer Northwestern University NERFINISHED
University of Frankfurt NERFINISHED
University of Göttingen NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Jews
surface form: Jewish people
familyName Hellinger NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork functional analysis
integral equations
mathematics
measure theory
operator theory
givenName Ernst NERFINISHED
hasGender male
hasNotableMetricNamedAfter Hellinger distance NERFINISHED
hasNotableTheoremNamedAfter Hellinger–Toeplitz theorem NERFINISHED
influencedBy David Hilbert NERFINISHED
Felix Klein NERFINISHED
Hermann Minkowski NERFINISHED
knownFor development of Hellinger distance in probability and statistics
foundational work in functional analysis
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf German Mathematical Society NERFINISHED
name Ernst Hellinger NERFINISHED
notableConcept Hellinger distance NERFINISHED
Hellinger integral NERFINISHED
Hellinger–Toeplitz theorem NERFINISHED
notableEvent dismissal from his university position under Nazi racial laws
emigration to the United States
notableStudent Irving Kaplansky NERFINISHED
Paul Halmos NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Striegau NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Evanston, Illinois NERFINISHED
workLocation Evanston, Illinois NERFINISHED
Frankfurt am Main NERFINISHED

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Hellinger distance namedAfter Ernst Hellinger
Adolf Hurwitz notableStudent Ernst Hellinger