Hermann Hankel

(1839–1873) Mathematician

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Hermann Hankel was a mathematician.

Quick Facts About Hermann Hankel

Born: February 14, 1839
Died: March 29, 1873
Profession: Mathematician

About Hermann Hankel

[Wikidata] German mathematician (1839–1873)... | [Wikipedia] Hermann Hankel was a German mathematician. Having worked on mathematical analysis during his career, he is best known for introducing the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix.

Quotes by Hermann Hankel

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

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In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each…

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[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images,…

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Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty…

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