Heinrich Eduard Heine was a German mathematician.
Heinrich Eduard Heine was born onMarch 1821 in Berlin, as the eighth child of banker Karl Heine and his wife Henriette Mrtens. Eduard was initially home schooled, then studied at the Friedrichswerdersche Gymnasium and Kllnische Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1838, after graduating from gymnasium, he enrolled at the University of Berlin, but transferred to the University of Gttingen to attend the mathematics lectures of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Moritz Stern. In 1840 Heine returned to Berlin, where he studied mathematics under Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, while also attending classes of Jakob Steiner and Johann Franz Encke. In 1842 he was an awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Berlin for a thesis on differential equations submitted with Enno Dirksen and Martin Ohm as advisors. Heine dedicated the doctoral thesis to his professor Gustav Dirichlet. Next he went to the University of Knigsberg to participate in the mathematical seminar of Carl Gustav Jacobi, while also following mathematica
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