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Eduard Heine

1821 - 1881

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Heinrich Eduard Heine (16 March 1821 – 21 October 1881) was a German mathematician. Heine became known for results on special functions and in real analysis. In particular, he authored an important treatise on spherical harmonics and Legendre functions (Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen). He also investigated basic hypergeometric series. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Heine is the 268th most popular mathematician (down from 236th in 2019), the 1,505th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,521st in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eduard Heine ranks 268 out of 1,004. Before him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Aristyllus, Al-Khazini, Eugène Charles Catalan, Lady Byron, and Kazimierz Kuratowski. After him are Jean-Robert Argand, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Jabir ibn Aflah, Paul Lévy, and Seymour Papert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Eduard Heine ranks 25. Before him are Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Heinrich Barth, Arthur Cayley, Bartolomé Mitre, Andrew Kim Taegon, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. After him are Giovanni Bottesini, Sebastian Kneipp, Tuone Udaina, Rachel Félix, Ernst Engel, and Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1881, Eduard Heine ranks 23. Before him are Empress Dowager Ci'an, Nikolay Pirogov, Theobald Boehm, Hermann Lotze, George W. De Long, and Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis. After him are Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, John Gould, William Burges, and Ludwig von Benedek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Heine ranks 1,505 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Albert III, Duke of Bavaria (1401), Walter Dornberger (1895), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784), and Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748). After him are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781), Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671), Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882), Princess Anna of Prussia (1836), and John George II, Elector of Saxony (1613).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Eduard Heine ranks 30. Before him are Maria Reiche (1903), Thomas Abbt (1738), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849). After him are Edmund Landau (1877), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Michael Stifel (1487), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800).

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