Biography:Hans Petersson

Short description: German mathematician

Hans Petersson (24 September 1902 in Bentschen – 9 November 1984 in Münster) was a German mathematician. He introduced the Petersson inner product and is also known for the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture.

See also

• Weil–Petersson metric

References

• Wohlfahrt, K. (1994), "Hans Petersson zum Gedächtnis", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 96 (3): 117–129, ISSN 0012-0456, http://dml.math.uni-bielefeld.de/JB_DMV/#Band96 
• Hans Petersson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project