Julius August Christoph Zech (24 February 1821

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, Germany − 13 July 1864 Berg) was a German astronomer and mathematician. In 1849, Zech published a table of logarithms; as a result,

Zech logarithm Zech logarithms are used to implement addition in finite fields when elements are represented as powers of a generator \alpha. Zech logarithms are named after Julius Zech, and are also called Jacobi logarithms, after Carl G. J. Jacobi who used t ...

s for finite fields are named after him.

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J. Zech
biography on mathforum. 19th-century German astronomers 19th-century German mathematicians 1821 births 1864 deaths Scientists from Stuttgart {{Germany-mathematician-stub