Kramp

Christian Kramp

Born: 8 July 1760 in Strasbourg, France
Died: 13 May 1826 in Strasbourg, France

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Kramp was professor of mathematics at Strasbourg, the town of his birth. He generalised the factorial function independently of the work of Stirling and Vandermonde. He was the first to use the notation n! and he sent his work on factorials of non-integers to Bessel who was influenced by it.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. N Nielsen, Géomètres francais sous la Révolution (Paris, 1937), 128-134. 
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