Project Gutenberg on Nostr: French mathematician and academic Christian Kramp was born #OTD in 1760. Like Bessel, ...
French mathematician and academic Christian Kramp was born #OTD in 1760.
Like Bessel, Legendre and Gauss, Kramp worked on the generalized factorial function, which applies to non-integer numbers. His work on factorials is independent of that of Stirling and Vandermonde. He was the first to use the notation n! (Éléments d'arithmétique universelle, 1808). In fact, the more general concept of factorial was found around the same time by Arbogast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Kramp
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Like Bessel, Legendre and Gauss, Kramp worked on the generalized factorial function, which applies to non-integer numbers. His work on factorials is independent of that of Stirling and Vandermonde. He was the first to use the notation n! (Éléments d'arithmétique universelle, 1808). In fact, the more general concept of factorial was found around the same time by Arbogast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Kramp
#science #mathematics