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
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