Mathematician:Heinrich Eduard Heine

Mathematician

German mathematician who worked mainly in analysis.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 16 March 1821, Berlin, Germany
• Died: 21 Oct 1881, Halle, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Heine-Borel Theorem (with Émile Borel)
• Heine-Cantor Theorem (with Georg Cantor)
• Heine's Reciprocal Square Root Identity (or Heine's Identity)

Results named for Heinrich Eduard Heine can be found here.

Publications

• 1842: De aequationibus nonnullis differentialibus (Berlin, 1842)

• 1847: Untersuchungen über die Reihe (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 34: pp. 285 – 328)

• 1861: Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen (G. Reimer, Berlin, 1861)

• 1870: Ueber trigonometrische Reihen ("On trigonometric series") (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 71: pp. 353 – 365)

• 1878: Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen, Theorie und Anwendungen (Volume 1) (2nd ed., G. Reimer, Berlin, 1878)
• 1881: Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen, Theorie und Anwendungen (Volume 2) (2nd ed., G. Reimer, Berlin, 1881)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Heinrich Eduard Heine": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive