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Name
  
Ludvig Oppermann

Role
  
Mathematician

Died
  
August 17, 1883


Ludvig Henrik Ferdinand Oppermann (September 7, 1817 - August 17, 1883) was a Danish mathematician and philologist who formulated Oppermann's conjecture on the distribution of prime numbers.

Publications

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  • 1857: Bidrag til Landmaalingens Theori. (Contributions to the theory of geodesy.) Tidsskr. Krigsvaxsen, 332-44.
  • 1863: Under the signature "En Dilettant": En Foresp0rgsel. (A request.) Tidsskr. Math. (1) 5, p. 16.
  • Under the signature "En Dilettant": Minimumsproblemer. (Minimum problems.) Tidsskr. Math. (1) 5, 17-26.
  • 1866: Om Livsforsikringer og Livrenter. (On life insurance and pensions.) Copenhagen, 24 pp.
  • 1869: Notes on Newton's formulae for interpolation. The Assurance Mag. 15, 145-8 and 177-9.
  • 1870: On Brigg's formula for interpolation. The Assurance Mag. 15, 312.
  • On the graduation of life tables, with special application to the rate of mortality in infancy and childhood. The Assurance Rec., Febr. 11.
  • 1871: Om Kvadratur. (On quadrature.) Tidsskr. Math. (3) 1 11-27.
  • 1872: Elementaere Darstellung, der numerischen Summation und Quadratur.Copenhagen, 21 pp.
  • Zur Begriindungder allgemeinenFehlertheorie(Methode der kleinsten Quadraten). Hamburg, 20 pp.
  • References

    Ludvig Oppermann Wikipedia