ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Heinrich Eduard Heine

German mathematician who worked mainly in analysis.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 16 March 1821, Berlin, Germany
• Died: 21 Oct 1881, Halle, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Heine-Borel Theorem
• Heine-Cantor Theorem
• Heine's Reciprocal Square Root Identity (or Heine's Identity)

Books and Papers

• 1842: De aequationibus nonnullis differentialibus (Berlin, 1842)
• 1861: Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen (G. Reimer, Berlin, 1861)
• 1870: On trigonometric series (in Crelle's Journal)
• 1878: Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen, Theorie und Anwendungen (Volume 1) (2nd ed., G. Reimer, Berlin, 1878)
• 1881: Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen, Theorie und Anwendungen (Volume 2) (2nd ed., G. Reimer, Berlin, 1881)

See also

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Heinrich Eduard Heine": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive