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Nationality
  
German

Name
  
Christoph Gudermann

Fields
  
Known for
  
Residence
  
Germany


Institutions
  
Munster Academy

Role
  
Mathematician

Born
  
March 25, 1798Vienenburg,Holy Roman Empire (
1798-03-25
)

Alma mater
  
University of Gottingen

Died
  
September 25, 1852, Munster, Germany

Similar People
  
Karl Weierstrass, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Carl Gustav Jacob Ja, Pierre‑Simon Laplace

Doctoral students
  
Karl Weierstrass

Education
  
University of Gottingen

Doctoral advisor
  
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Christoph Gudermann (March 25, 1798 – September 25, 1852) was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence, and for being the teacher of Karl Weierstrass, who was greatly influenced by Gudermann's course on elliptic functions in 1839–1840, the first such course to be taught in any institute.

Biography

Gudermann was born in Vienenburg. He was the son of a school teacher and became a teacher himself after studying at the University of Göttingen, where his academic advisor was Karl Friedrich Gauss. He began his teaching career in Kleve and then transferred to a school in Münster.

Gudermann introduced the concept of uniform convergence in an 1838 paper on elliptic functions, but only observed it informally, neither formalizing it nor using it in his proofs. Instead, Weierstrass elaborated and applied uniform convergence.

His researches into spherical geometry and special functions focused on particular cases, so that he did not receive the credit given to those who published more general works. The Gudermannian function, or hyperbolic amplitude, is named after him.

Gudermann died in Münster.

References

Christoph Gudermann Wikipedia


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