Karl Heun
Encyclopedia
Karl Heun was a German
mathematician
who introduced Heun's equation
, Heun functions, and Heun's method
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Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who introduced Heun's equation
Heun's equation
In mathematics, the local Heun function Hℓ is the solution of Heun's differential equation that is holomorphic and 1 at the singular point z = 0...
, Heun functions, and Heun's method
Heun's method
In mathematics and computational science, Heun's method may refer to the improved or modified Euler's method , or a similar two-stage Runge–Kutta method. It is named after Karl L. W. M. Heun and is a numerical procedure for solving ordinary differential equations with a given initial value...
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