Moritz Abraham Stern
| Moritz Abraham Stern | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
29 June 1807 Frankfurt |
| Died |
30 January 1894 (aged 86) Zurich |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Göttingen |
| Doctoral advisor |
Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| Notable students |
Bernhard Riemann Ferdinand Eisenstein |
| Known for |
Stern primes Stern–Brocot tree |
Moritz Abraham Stern (29 June 1807 – 30 January 1894) was a German mathematician. Stern became Ordinarius (full professor) at Göttingen University in 1858, succeeding Carl Friedrich Gauss. Stern was the first Jewish full professor at a German university.[1]
As a professor, Stern taught Gauss's student Bernhard Riemann. Stern was very helpful to Ferdinand Eisenstein in formulating a proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem. Stern was interested in primes that cannot be expressed as the sum of a prime and twice a square (now known as Stern primes).
He is known for formulating Stern's diatomic series[2]
that counts the number of ways to write a number as a sum of powers of two with no power used more than twice.
He is also known for the Stern–Brocot tree which he wrote about in 1858 and which Brocot independently discovered in 1861.
References
- ↑ Setting the record straight about Jewish mathematicians in Nazi Germany, Haaretz
- ↑ Stern, M. A. (1858), "Ueber eine zahlentheoretische Funktion", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 55: 193–220, doi:10.1515/crll.1858.55.193.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Moritz Abraham Stern", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
This article incorporates material from Moritz Stern on PlanetMath, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.