14th–15th century
Plethon → Gauss
- Georgios Gemistos Plethon c. 1355–1452
- Basilios Bessarion 1436
- Johannes Argyropoulos Padova, 1444
- Johannes Reuchlin Basel, 1481
- Philipp Melanchthon Tübingen, 1514
- Johannes Caselius Wittenberg, 1566
- Georg Calixt Helmstedt, 1607
- Johann Andreas Quenstedt Wittenberg, 1644
- Michael Walther Jr. Wittenberg, 1661
- Johann Pasch Wittenberg, 1683
- Johann Andreas Planer Halle-Wittenberg, 1686
- Christian August Hausen Halle-Wittenberg, 1713
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner Leipzig, 1739
- Johann Friedrich Pfaff Göttingen, 1786
- Carl Friedrich Gauss Helmstedt, 1799
18th century
Two paths · merge at Runge
Weierstraß line
Kummer line
Ernst Kummer
1810 – 1893
Halle, 1831 · Advisor: Scherk · co-advisor of Runge
Universität Berlin
Leslie L. Foldy
1919 – 2001
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1948 · Advisor: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Case Western Reserve University
Richard Kent Osborn
1919 – 1987
Ph.D. Case Institute of Technology, 1951 · Advisor: Leslie Foldy
University of Michigan
Wei Cai
Ph.D. MIT, 2001 · Advisor: Sidney Yip
Stanford University · Mechanical Engineering
Hanfeng Zhai
Ph.D. Candidate · Stanford University, present
Advisor: Wei Cai
Mechanics and Computation · Mechanical Engineering