Oliver Dimon Kellogg

Oliver Dimon Kellogg (* July 10, 1878 in Linwood, Pennsylvania, † July 26, 1932 in Greenville, Maine ) was an American mathematician. His father Day Otis Kellogg was a professor of literature at the University of Kansas and editor of the American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Kellogg graduated in 1895 from Princeton University, where he in 1900 made ​​his master's degree and a Kennedy scholarship, first at the Humboldt University in Berlin and then in 1901 /02 went to the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. Kellogg was there received his doctorate in 1902 with David Hilbert ( On the theory of integral equations and the Dirichlet principle ). After that, he was instructor at Princeton and from 1905 at the University of Missouri, where he became professor in 1910. In 1911 he married. In World War I he was a research consultant at the academy of the U.S. Coast Guard in New London in Connecticut, where he worked on the discovery of submarines. In 1919 he was a lecturer at Harvard University, 1920 Associate Professor and Professor in 1927. He died of a heart attack while climbing.

Kellogg is known for his work on potential theory, with which he occupied himself for his dissertation and he 1929 classic textbook Foundations of Potential Theory wrote. In 1922, he generalized the brouwer fixed point theorem between George David Birkhoff with the set of Birkhoff - Kellogg.

Among his students is one of Arthur Copeland.

Writings

• Foundations of Potential Theory. Basic teachings of Mathematical Sciences, Springer -Verlag 1967.