Oscar Schlömilch
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Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch (1823–1901) was a German mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He took a doctorate at the University of Jena in 1842, and became a professor at Dresden Polytechnic in 1849.
He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. He was also an important textbook writer, and editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, of which he was a founder in 1856.
He published in 1868 for the first time the dissection paradox, earlier invented by Sam Loyd.
[edit] See also
- Schlömilch remainder
- Schlömilch series
- Schlömilch equation
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Oscar Schlömilch”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Oscar Schlömilch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
