Karl Hessenberg

Mathematician, Deceased Person

1904 – 1959

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Who was Karl Hessenberg?

Karl Adolf Hessenberg was a German mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. However, the Hessenberg sum and product of ordinals are named for the mathematician Gerhard Hessenberg, a near relative.

Hessenberg was also the brother of composer Kurt Hessenberg, and the great-grandson of doctor and author Heinrich Hoffmann.

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Born
Sep 8, 1904
Frankfurt
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Feb 22, 1959
Frankfurt

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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