Mathias Lerch

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Mathias Lerch (Matyáš Lerch, Czech: [ˈlɛrx]) (20 February 1860, Milínov – 3 August 1922, Sušice)^[1] was an eminent Czech mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. He studied in Prague and Berlin, and held teaching positions at the Czech Technical Institute in Prague, the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the Czech Technical Institute in Brno, and Masaryk University in Brno; he was the first mathematics professor at Masaryk University when it was founded in 1920.^[1] In 1900, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the French Academy of Sciences for his number-theoretic work.^[1] The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Mathias Lerch", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .

External links

Mathias Lerch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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Name	Lerch, Mathias
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Short description	Czech mathematician
Date of birth	20 February 1860
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Date of death	3 August 1922
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