Leo August Pochhammer was a Prussian mathematician known for his work on special functions, who introduced the Pochhammer symbol, now generally used for expressing hypergeometric functions in a compact notation. Born in Stendal in 1841, he grew up in Berlin, studied mathematics and physics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University there and received his doctorate in 1863 under Ernst Eduard Kummer. From 1874 he was a professor at the University of Kiel, where he was rector in 1893 and 1894 and argued for greater educational opportunities for women.
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Leo August Pochhammer (25 August 1841, Stendal, 24 March 1920, Kiel) was a Prussian mathematician who was 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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