Hans Heinrich Bürmann

Hans Heinrich Bürmann (died June 21, 1817 in Mannheim) was a German mathematician and teacher. He ran an "academy of commerce" in Mannheim since 1795 where he used to teach mathematics.[1] He also served as a censor in Mannheim.[1] He was nominated Headmaster of the Commerce Academy of the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1811. He did scientific research in the area of combinatorics and he contributed to the development of the symbolic language of mathematics. He discovered the generalized form of the Lagrange inversion theorem. He corresponded and published with Joseph Louis Lagrange and Carl Hindenburg.

References

  1. 1 2 Bürmann's biography (in German) from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.


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