Mathematician:Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk

Mathematician

German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers.

Nationality

Prussian

History

• Born: 27 October 1798 in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Poznań, Poland)
• Died: 4 October 1885 in Bremen, German Empire

Theorems and Definitions

• Scherk Surface

Definitions of concepts named for Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk can be found here.

Publications

• 1828: Aufgaben und Lehrsätze, erstere aufzulösen, letztere zu beweisen (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 3: pp. 96 – 100)

Sources

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