Gustav Ferdinand Mehler
German mathematician
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| Intro | German mathematician | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Mathematician | |
| Work field | Mathematics | |
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| Birth | 13 December 1835, Trzcianka | |
| Death | 13 July 1895Elbląg (aged 59 years) |
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Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, or Ferdinand Gustav Mehler (13 December 1835, Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia – 13 July 1895, 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.