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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, Zech 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, vol. Volume 10 Thibaut – Zycha, Walter de Gruyter, p. 657, ISBN 3110961164 {{citation}}: |volume= has extra text (help)