Gustav Ferdinand Mehler
Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, or Ferdinand Gustav Mehler (13 December 1835, Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia – 13 July 1895, Elbing, German Empire) was a German mathematician.
He is credited with introducing Mehler's formula; the Mehler–Fock transform; the Mehler–Heine formula; and Mehler functions (conical functions), in connection with his utilization of Zonal spherical functions in Electromagnetic theory.
References
- Krause, M. (1897), "Gustav Ferdinand Mehler", Mathematische Annalen, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 48 (4): 603–606, doi:10.1007/BF01447926, ISSN 0025-5831, JFM 28.0021.01
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