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.
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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- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Hans Petersson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Hans Petersson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 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
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- Wohlfahrt, K. (1994), "Hans Petersson zum Gedächtnis", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, 96 (3): 117–129, ISSN 0012-0456, MR 1286885