Christoph Gudermann
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| Christoph Gudermann | |
| Born | March 25, 1798 Vienenburg, Germany |
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| Died | September 25, 1852 (aged 54) Münster, Germany |
| Residence |  Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Münster Academy |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Doctoral advisor | Carl Gauss |
| Doctoral students | Karl Weierstrass |
| Known for | Gudermannian function |
Christoph Gudermann (March 25, 1798 - September 25, 1852) was born in Vienenburg, Germany. He was the son of a school teacher and became a teacher himself after studying at the University of Göttingen, where his advisor was Karl Friedrich Gauss. He began his teaching career in Kleve and then transferred to a school in Münster. While there, Karl Weierstrass took Gudermann's course in elliptic functions, the first to be taught in any institute. Weierstrass was greatly influenced by this course, which marked the direction of his own research.
His researches into spherical geometry and special functions focused on particular cases, so that he did not receive the credit given to those who published more general works.
The Gudermannian function, or hyperbolic amplitude, is named after him.
Gudermann died in Münster.
[edit] External links
- Christoph Gudermann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Christoph Gudermann”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Gudermann, Christoph |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienenburg, Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1852 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Münster, Germany |
