Oscar Schlömilch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oscar Schlömilch

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1823

Place of Birth: Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1901

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch (13 April 1823 – 7 February 1901) was a German mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis.
He took a doctorate at the University of Jena in 1842, and became a professor at Dresden Polytechnic in 1849. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function.
He was also an important textbook writer, and editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, of which he was a founder in 1856.
He published in 1868 for the first time the dissection paradox, earlier invented by Sam Loyd. In 1862, he was elected a foreign members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.