Gustav Ferdinand Mehler
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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, who introduced Mehler's formula, Mehler–Fock formula, Mehler–Heine formula
, Mehler functions.
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...
- 13 July 1895, Elbing
Elbing
Elbing is the German name of Elbląg, a city in northern Poland which until 1945 was a German city in the province of East Prussia.Elbing may also refer to:- Ships :* SMS Elbing, light cruiser of the Imperial Germany Navy...
, German Empire
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
) was a German mathematician, who introduced Mehler's formula, Mehler–Fock formula, Mehler–Heine formula
Mehler–Heine formula
In mathematics, the Mehler–Heine formula introduced by and describes the asymptotic behavior of the Legendre polynomials as the index tends to infinity, near the edges of the support of the weight. There are generalizations to other classical orthogonal polynomials, which are also called the...
, Mehler functions.