Otto Frostman

Otto Albin Frostman (Höör, January 3, 1907 – Djursholm, December 29, 1977) was a Swedish mathematician, known for his work in potential theory and complex analysis.

Frostman earned his Ph. D. in 1935 at Lund University under the Hungarian-born mathematician Marcel Riesz, the younger brother of F. Riesz. In potential theory, Frostman's lemma is named after him.^[1] He supervised the 1971 Stockholm University Ph.D. thesis of Berndt Lindström, which initiated the "Stockholm School" of topological combinatorics (combining simplicial homology and enumerative combinatorics).

Notes

↑ Kjell-Ove Widman (2004). "Household names in Swedish mathematics". EMS Newsletter 52.

External links

Otto Frostman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
ICMI webpage

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