Oliver Dimon Kellogg belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Oliver Dimon Kellogg as American mathematician (1878–1932).
Oliver Dimon Kellogg was born at Linwood in 1878. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at University of Göttingen and Princeton University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the foundations of mathematics were under open attack, and set theory and logic became urgent questions.
His academic posts were held at Princeton University, University of Missouri and Harvard University.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics and potential theory.
Among his principal contributions are Kellogg's theorem, Birkhoff–Kellogg invariant-direction theorem and Foundations of Potential Theory. Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Oliver Dimon Kellogg died in 1932, aged 54. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Kellogg's theorem
- Notable work: Birkhoff–Kellogg invariant-direction theorem
- Notable work: Foundations of Potential Theory
- Held posts at Princeton University, University of Missouri and Harvard University
- Fields: mathematics and potential theory
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