Christian Kramp

Christian Kramp is a Alsatian Mathématicien born on July 8th 1760 and dead on May 13rd 1826 with Strasbourg (France).

The father of Christian Kramp was professor with the college of Strasbourg. Kramp studied medicine, after having received its diploma, it exerted in the surroundings where the residence of its patients extended in a rather broad sector. However it was interested in good of other things that medicine, and in addition to one great number of medical publications, it published a work on the Cristallographie in 1793. In 1795 France annexed the Rhineland in which Kramp exerted, he became then professor with Cologne (this city being French of 1794 to 1815), teaching mathematics, chemistry and physics.

Kramp was named mathematics professor in his birthplace of Strasbourg, in 1809. He was elected with the section of geometry of the Academy of Science in 1817. Like Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Adrien-Marie Legendre and Gauss, Kramp worked on the function Factorielle generalized which applies to the numbers which are not entireties. Its work on the factorials is independent of those of Stirling and Vandermonde. It was the first to use notation N! (Elements of arithmetic universal, 1808). In fact the more general concept of factorial was found at the same time by Louis François Antoine Arbogast.

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Extracts of the “Elements of arithmetic universal”: http://members.aol.com/jeff570/stat.html

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