Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustav Ferdinand Mehler

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1835

Place of Birth: Trzcianka, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1895

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, or Ferdinand Gustav Mehler (13 December 1835, Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia – 13 July 1895, Elbing, German Empire) was a German mathematician. He is credited with introducing Mehler's formula; the Mehler–Fock transform; the Mehler–Heine formula; and Mehler functions (conical functions), in connection with his utilization of Zonal spherical functions in Electromagnetic theory.