Hermann Hankel was a German mathematician who worked on the theory of complex numbers, the theory of functions and the history of mathematics. He is remembered for the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix. He was born in Halle on 14 February 1839 and died in Schramberg near Tübingen on 29 August 1873, aged thirty-four. The Hankel functions are named after him, and he also wrote an early historical study of the mathematics of antiquity.
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Hermann Hankel was a German mathematician who worked on the theory of complex numbers, the theory of functions and the history of mathematics. He is remembered for the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix.
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Hermann Hankel was a German mathematician who worked on the theory of complex numbers, the theory of functions and the history of mathematics. He is remembered for the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix.
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