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Karl F. Sundman

Finnish mathematician (1873–1949)

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[edit]

Sundman was awarded the Pontécoulant prize by the French Academy of Science in 1913 for this work.^[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[edit]

• Qiudong Wang generalized Sundman's solution to the case of more than three bodies In the 1990s.^[7][8][9]

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Järnefelt, G.: "Karl Fridhiof Sundman." Soc. Sci. Fenn. Arsbok 30 (2) (1953), 1–13.
• Järnefelt, G.: "Karl F. Sundman in Memoriam." Acta Mathematica 83 (1950), i–vi.
• Barrow-Green, June (2010). "The dramatic episode of Sundman. Historia Mathematica, 37 (2): 164-203.

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