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Johann Friedrich Pfaff
German mathematician (1765-1825)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 22 December 1765
- Died
- 21 April 1825
- Place of birth
- Stuttgart
- Place of death
- Halle (Saale)
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Johann Friedrich
- Family name
- Pfaff
- Sibling
- Wilhelm Pfaff
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis
- Occupation
- mathematician, astronomer, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- doctoral advisor
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Johann Elert Bode
- doctoral student
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, Karl Mollweide, Johann Christian Martin Bartels, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, August Ferdinand Möbius, Johann August Grunert
- educated at
- University of Göttingen, Karlsschule Stuttgart
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Johann Friedrich Pfaff
- notable work
- Pfaffian constraint, Pfaffian
- relative
- Friedrich Pfaff
- residence
- Kingdom of Württemberg
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