Gustav Ferdinand Mehler

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Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, or Ferdinand Gustav Mehler (13 December 1835 in Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia – 13 July 1895 in 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.

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  • {{Citation | last1=Krause | first1=M. | title=Gustav Ferdinand Mehler | publisher=Springer Berlin / Heidelberg | doi=10.1007/BF01447926 | jfm=28.0021.01 | year=1897 | journal=Mathematische Annalen | issn=0025-5831 | volume=48 | issue=4 | pages=603–606| s2cid=120694134 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/2070113 }}

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Category:19th-century German mathematicians

Category:Mathematicians from the Kingdom of Prussia

Category:1835 births

Category:1895 deaths

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