doctoral_advisor death_date death_place religion birth_place image_size fields workplaces notable_students birth_date known_for image article_title name
bernhard friedrich thibaut carl friedrich gauss 30 january 1894 zurich jewish frankfurt 200px mathematics university of göttingen bernhard riemann ferdinand eisenstein 29 june 1807 stern primes stern -- brocot tree moritz abraham stern.jpg moritz abraham stern
 moritz abraham stern
moritz abraham stern

moritz abraham stern -lrb- 29 june 1807 -- 30 january 1894 -rrb- was a german mathematician .
stern became `` ordinarius '' -lrb- full professor -rrb- at göttingen university in 1858 , succeeding carl friedrich gauss .
stern was the first jewish full professor at a german university .
as a professor , stern taught gauss 's student bernhard riemann .
stern was very helpful to ferdinand eisenstein in formulating a proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem .
stern was interested in primes that can not be expressed as the sum of a prime and twice a square -lrb- now known as stern primes -rrb- .
he is known for formulating stern 's diatomic series 1 , 1 , 2 , 1 , 3 , 2 , 3 , 1 , 4 , ... that counts the number of ways to write a number as a sum of powers of two with no power used more than twice .
he is also known for the stern -- brocot tree which he wrote about in 1858 and which brocot independently discovered in 1861 .
