Moritz Abraham Stern
Moritz Abraham Stern · Science & Medicine
Number theory; the Stern-Brocot tree
1807, Frankfurt am Main, Germany — 1894, Zürich, Switzerland
Germany · Switzerland
Moritz Abraham Stern is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Number theory; the Stern-Brocot tree
Stern was a German mathematician known for work in number theory, including the Stern–Brocot tree of rational numbers. Succeeding Gauss at Göttingen, he became the first Jew appointed to a full professorship at a German university without converting to Christianity. He was Jewish.
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Number theory; the Stern-Brocot tree
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
