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{{Short description|Czech mathematician (1860-1922)}}[[File:Matyas Lerch (1860-1922).jpg|right|thumb|{{center|Mathias Lerch}}]]
'''Mathias Lerch''' or '''Matyáš Lerch''' ({{IPA|cs|ˈlɛrx|lang}}; 20 February 1860, [[Milínov]] – 3 August 1922, [[Sušice]])<ref name="mactutor">{{MacTutor|id=Lerch|title=Mathias Lerch}}</ref> was a [[Czech people|Czech]] [[mathematician]] who published about 250 papers, largely on [[mathematical analysis]] and [[number theory]]. He studied in [[Prague]] ([[Czech Technical University in Prague|Czech Technical University]]) and [[Berlin]]; subsequently held teaching positions at the [[University of Fribourg]] in [[Switzerland]], the [[Brno University of Technology]] in [[Brno]], and finally at then newly founded (1920) [[Masaryk University]] in Brno where he became its first mathematics professor.<ref name="mactutor"/> 

In 1900, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the [[French Academy of Sciences]] for his number-theoretic work.<ref name="mactutor"/> The [[Lerch zeta function]] is named after him, as is the [[Appell&ndash;Lerch sum]]. His doctoral students include [[Michel Plancherel]] and [[Otakar Borůvka]].

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* {{MathGenealogy|id=72581}}

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