Leo August Pochhammer
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1841 – 1920
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Who was Leo August Pochhammer?
Leo August Pochhammer was a Prussian mathematician who was educated in Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1863 under Ernst Kummer. He became a lecturer in 1874, then professor of mathematics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität of Kiel, where he was appointed Rektor in 1893. He is known for his work on special functions and introduced the Pochhammer symbol, now generally used for expressing hypergeometric functions in a compact notation.
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- Born
- Aug 25, 1841
Stendal - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Lived in
- Stendal
- Died
- Mar 24, 1920
Kiel
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on July 23, 2013
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