Moritz Stern
Moritz Abraham Stern (1807 - 1894) German mathematician. Stern succeeded Carl Friedrich Gauss as Ordinarius at Göttingen University in 1858, becoming the first Jewish Ordinarius at a German university. He may also have been the first to take notice of Bernhard Riemann’s talent for mathematics. Stern was also very helpful to Ferdinand Eisenstein in formulating a proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem. He was interested in primes that can’t be expressed as the sum of a prime and twice a square (now known as Stern primes).
| Title | Moritz Stern |
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| Canonical name | MoritzStern |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 16:19:47 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 16:19:47 |
| Owner | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Last modified by | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Numerical id | 4 |
| Author | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A55 |
| Synonym | Moritz Abraham Stern |