Mathematician:Johann Friedrich Pfaff

Mathematician

German mathematician who was a precursor of the German school, being a direct influence on Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 22 December 1765 in Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)
• Died: 21 April 1825 in Halle, Saxony (now Germany)

Theorems and Definitions

• Pfaffian
• Pfaffian Function
• Pfaffian System
• Pfaffian Orientation

• Pfaff's Transformation
• Pfaff-Saalschütz Theorem (with Louis Saalschütz) (also known as Saalschütz's Hypergeometric Theorem)

Results named for Johann Friedrich Pfaff can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Johann Friedrich Pfaff can be found here.

Publications

• 1797: Disquisitiones analyticae maxime ad calculum integralem et doctrinam serierum pertinentes
• 1797: Observationes analyticae ad L. Euleri Institutiones calculi integralis (Nova Acta Acad. Scient. Petr. Vol. 11: pp. 38 – 57)

Also known as

Johann Friedrich Pfaff's middle name can sometimes be seen spelt Friederich.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Johann Friedrich Pfaff": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive