Lerch

Mathias Lerch

Born: 20 Feb 1860 in Mil’nov (near Susice), Bohemia
Died: 3 Aug 1922 in Susice, Czechoslovakia

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Mathias Lerch studied at Prague, then at Berlin where he was taught by Weierstrass, Kronecker and Fuchs. He was professor at Brno, then Masaryk University in Brno. He wrote 238 papers mostly on analysis and number theory. Some of his work is fundamental in modern operator calculus.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. L Frank, Mathias Lerch, Casopis pro pestován’ amtematiky 78 (1953), 119-137. 
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