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Eduard Heine

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Eduard Heine · Science & Medicine

What

Analysis; the Heine-Borel theorem

When

1821, Berlin, Prussia (now Germany) — 1881, Halle, Germany

Where

Germany

Biography

Eduard Heine is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Analysis; the Heine-Borel theorem

How & why

Eduard Heine was a mathematician remembered for the Heine–Borel theorem and for the concept of uniform continuity, central results of real analysis. A professor at Halle, he did influential work on special functions and spherical harmonics. Born into a Jewish banking family in Berlin, he was of Jewish origin.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Analysis; the Heine-Borel theorem

1821

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics