Hermann Hankel
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Hermann Hankel (February 14, 1839 - August 29, 1873) was a German mathematician who was born in Halle, Germany and died in Schramberg (near Tübingen), Germany.
He studied and worked with, among others, Möbius, Riemann, Weierstrass and Kronecker.
Herman Hankel is one of the first to give credit to India for the Hindu - Arabic number system and the mathematics that came along with it. He said "One can not deny that modern mathematics has a greater resemblance to that of the Indians than to that of the Greeks".[1]
[edit] See also
- Hankel matrix
- Hankel function in the theory of Bessel functions
- Hankel contour
- Hankel transform
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Hermann Hankel”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Hermann Hankel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
[edit] Reference
- ^ Dauben, Joseph W. (2002). The history of mathematics.
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