Hans_Petersson

Hans Petersson

Hans Petersson

German mathematician

For those of a similar name, see Hans Peterson and Hans Petersen (disambiguation).

Hans Petersson (24 September 1902 in Bentschen – 9 November 1984 in Münster) was a German mathematician, known for his research on modular and automorphic forms.[1] He introduced the Petersson inner product and is also known for the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture.

He received his doctorate in 1925 from the University of Hamburg. His thesis advisor was Erich Hecke.[2]

In a series of papers, Petersson used the Poincaré series to give a complete construction of all meromorphic functions and differentials on a compact Riemann surface.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Hans Petersson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. [2]
    Hans Petersson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. [3]
    Maass, Hans (1983). Lectures on modular functions of one complex variable (PDF). Tata Institute Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 29 (2nd, revised ed.). Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer. p. 39; notes by Sunder Lal taken on lectures given by Maass at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1962–1963{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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