Erhard Schmidt (1876 - 1959)

* 13 January 1876, † 16 December 1959

Erhard Schmidt was born on 13 January 1876 in Dorpat, Estonia (Russian Empire) (now Tartu, Estonia). Schmidt is best remembered for the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation process, which takes a basis of a space and constructs an orthogonal one from it. Erhard Schmidt died on 16 December 1959 in Berlin, Germany.