Julius August Christoph Zech
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Julius Zech, photography by Georg Friedrich Brandseph, before 1862
Julius August Christoph Zech (24 February 1821 Stuttgart (Germany) − 13 July 1864 Berg) was a German astronomer and mathematician.
In 1849, he published a table of logarithms; as a result, Zech logarithms for finite fields are named after him.
References
- Killy, Walther, ed. (2006), Dictionary of German biography, Volume 10 Thibaut – Zycha, Walter de Gruyter, p. 657, ISBN 3110961164
External links
- J. Zech biography on mathforum.
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