Heinrich Scherk
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Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer.
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by t
Heinrich Scherk
…of prime numbers Scherk surface Scientific career Fields Mathematics Workplaces Universität Halle-Wittenberg Universität zu Kiel Doctoral advisor Friedrich Bessel Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Doctoral students Ernst Kummer Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (27 October 1798 – 4 October 1885) was a German mathematician notable…
C. A. Jensen, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1839 (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
Königsberg Observatory (1830)
Bessel's geodetic apparatus, in the museum of Istituto Geografico Militare, Florence, Italy
Tabulae Regiomontanae reductionum observationum astronomicarum ab anno 1750 usque ad annum 1850 computatae, 1830