- 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.
In 1862, he was elected a foreign members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
See also
- Schlömilch remainder
- Schlömilch series
- Schlömilch equation
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Oscar Schlömilch", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scholomilch.html.
- Oscar Schlömilch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Categories:- German mathematicians
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1823 births
- 1901 deaths
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