Which Happened First?

Christoph Gudermann

Christoph Gudermann was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence, and for being the teacher of Karl Weierstrass, who was greatly influenced by Gudermann's course on elliptic functions in 1839–1840, the first such course to be taught in any institute.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Auguste ComteJanuary 19, 1798 – September 5, 1857
  2. Christoph Gudermann (this page)March 25, 1798 – September 25, 1852
  3. Franz Ernst NeumannSeptember 11, 1798 – May 23, 1895
  4. Karl Georg Christian von StaudtJanuary 24, 1798 – June 1, 1867
  5. Macedonio MelloniApril 11, 1798 – August 11, 1854
  6. Thomas James HendersonDecember 28, 1798 – November 23, 1844

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