Martin Ohm

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Martin Ohm (1792–1872) was a German mathematician and a younger brother of physicist Georg Ohm. Ohm was the first to fully develop the theory of the exponential a^b when both a and b are complex numbers in 1823. He is also often credited with introducing the name "golden section".

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• Cajori, Florian (1991). A History of Mathematics, 5e, 329–330. ISBN 0-8218-2102-4.