- Johann Friedrich Pfaff
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name = Johann Friedrich Pfaff
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caption = Johann Friedrich Pfaff
birth_date = birth date|1765|12|22|mf=y
birth_place =Stuttgart ,Germany
death_date = death date and age|1825|4|21|1765|12|22|mf=y
death_place = Halle,Germany
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field =Mathematics
work_institution =University of Helmstedt Halle University
alma_mater =University of Göttingen
doctoral_advisor =Abraham Kaestner
doctoral_students =Carl Friedrich Gauss August Möbius
known_for =Pfaffian s
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footnotes =Johann Friedrich Pfaff (sometimes spelled Friederich) was born in
Stuttgart onDecember 22 ,1765 , and died in Halle onApril 21 ,1825 . Pfaff was described as one ofGermany 's most eminent mathematicians during the 19th century. He studiedintegral calculus , and is noted for his work onpartial differential equation s of the first order (Pfaffian system s as they are now called) which became part of the theory ofdifferential form s; and asCarl Friedrich Gauss 's formal research supervisor.Pfaff was a student of
Abraham Kaestner , and became the precursor of the German school of mathematic thinking, which under Gauss and his followers largely determined the lines on which mathematics developed during the nineteenth century. He knew Gauss well, when they both lived together inHelmstedt in 1798.August Möbius was later a student of his.ee also
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NAME= Pfaff, Johann Friedrich
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH=December 22 ,1765
PLACE OF BIRTH=Stuttgart ,Germany
DATE OF DEATH=April 21 ,1825
PLACE OF DEATH= Halle,Germany
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