Georg Faber (5 April 1877 – 7 March 1966) was a German
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
who introduced
Faber polynomials,
Faber series, the
Lévy C curve
In mathematics, the Lévy C curve is a self-similar fractal curve that was first described and whose differentiability properties were analysed by Ernesto Cesàro in 1906 and Georg Faber in 1910, but now bears the name of French mathematician Pa ...
, and
Faber–Schauder system In mathematics, a Schauder basis or countable basis is similar to the usual ( Hamel) basis of a vector space; the difference is that Hamel bases use linear combinations that are finite sums, while for Schauder bases they may be infinite sums. This ...
s.
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1877 births
1966 deaths
19th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
University of Göttingen alumni
University of Würzburg alumni
Presidents of the Technical University of Munich
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
Academic staff of the University of Stuttgart
Academic staff of the University of Königsberg
Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
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