Mathematician:Moritz Abraham Stern

Mathematician

German mathematician known for formulating Stern's diatomic series.

Also known for the Stern-Brocot Tree which he wrote about in $1858$ and which Louis Achille Brocot independently discovered in $1861$.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 29 June 1807 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Died: 30 January 1894 in Zürich, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

• Stern's Diatomic Series
• Stern Prime
• Stern Number
• Stern-Brocot Tree (independently of Louis Achille Brocot)

Definitions of concepts named for Moritz Abraham Stern can be found here.

Publications

• 1856: Sur un assertion de Goldbach relative aux nombres impairs (Nouv. Ann. Math. Vol. 15: pp. 23 – 24)
• 1858: Ueber eine zahlentheoretische Funktion (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 55: pp. 193 – 220)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Moritz Abraham Stern": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive