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Hermann Hankel

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Hankel, Hermann

 

Born Feb. 14, 1839, in Halle; died Aug. 29, 1873, in Schramberg. German mathematician.

Working in Erlangen and Tübingen, he derived a series of formulas on the theory of cylindrical functions; his researches on the foundations of arithmetic promoted the development of the theory of quaternions and general hyper-complex number systems. Hankel also wrote works on the history of mathematics in the classical and medieval periods.

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Theorie der complexen Zahlensysteme. Leipzig, 1867. (Vorlesungen über die complexen Zahlen und ihre Funktionen, part 1.)
Zur Geschichte der Mathematick in Altertum und Mittelalter. Leipzig, 1874.
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