Ludwig Otto Hölder (1859 - 0001)

* 22 December 1859, † 0001

Ludwig Otto Hölder was born on 22 December 1859 in Stuttgart, Germany. Otto Hölder worked on the convergence of Fourier series and in 1884 he discovered the inequality now named after him. He became interested in group theory through Kronecker and Klein and proved the uniqueness of the factor groups in a composition series.