Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mathematician
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Carl Wilhelm Borchardt
- Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (22 February 1817 – 27 June 1880) was a German mathematician. Borchardt was born to a Jewish family in Berlin.
- His father, Moritz, was a respected merchant, and his mother was Emma Heilborn.
- Borchardt studied under a number of tutors, including Julius Plücker and Jakob Steiner.
- He studied at the University of Berlin under Lejeune Dirichlet in 1836 and at the University of Königsberg in 1839.
- In 1848 he began teaching at the University of Berlin. He did research in the area of arithmetic-geometric mean, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
- He generalised the results of Kummer diagonalising symmetric matrices, using determinants and Sturm functions.
- He was also an editor of Crelle's Journal from 1856–80, during which time it was known as Borchardt's Journal. He died in Rüdersdorf, Germany.
- His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No.
- III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.
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