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Carl Borchardt

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Carl Borchardt · Science & Medicine

What

Analysis and the arithmetic-geometric mean

When

1817, Berlin, Prussia — 1880, Rützdorf, Germany

Where

Germany

Biography

Carl Borchardt is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Analysis and the arithmetic-geometric mean

How & why

Borchardt was a German mathematician who worked in analysis, elliptic functions and the arithmetic-geometric mean, and long edited the influential Crelle's Journal. He was born to a Jewish family in Berlin.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Analysis and the arithmetic-geometric mean

1817

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics