Hans Petersson

Hans Petersson (24 September 1902 in Bentschen – 9 November 1984 in Münster) was a German mathematician, known for his research on modular and automorphic forms.[1] He introduced the Petersson inner product and is also known for the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture.

For those of a similar name, see Hans Peterson and Hans Petersen (disambiguation).

He received his doctorate in 1925 from the University of Hamburg. His thesis advisor was Erich Hecke.[2]

In a series of papers, Petersson used the Poincaré series to give a complete construction of all meromorphic functions and differentials on a compact Riemann surface.[3]

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References
  1. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Hans Petersson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. Hans Petersson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Maass, Hans (1983). Lectures on modular functions of one complex variable (PDF). Tata Institute Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 29 (2nd, revised ed.). Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer. p. 39; notes by Sunder Lal taken on lectures given by Maass at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1962–1963{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)


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