Hermann Kober (born 1 February 1888 in

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mathematician who introduced Erdélyi–Kober operators. He taught (mathematics and science), up to the early 1960s, at some of the King Edward VI Foundation schools in Birmingham.

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* 1888 births 1973 deaths 19th-century German Jews 20th-century German mathematicians People from Bytom People from the Province of Silesia German emigrants to the United Kingdom {{Germany-mathematician-stub