Karl Frithiof Sundman (28 October 1873, Kaskinen – 28 September 1949, Helsinki) was a Finnish mathematician who used analytic methods to prove the existence of a convergent infinite series solution to the three-body problem in 1906 and 1909.
He was awarded the Pontécoulant prize by the French Academy of Science in 1913 for this work. He also published a paper on regularization methods in mechanics in 1912.
In 1947, Sundman was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The crater Sundman on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 1424 Sundmania.
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| Name | Sundman, Karl F. |
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| Short description | Finnish mathematician |
| Date of birth | 1873 |
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| Date of death | 1949 |
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