Oskar Xavier Schlömilch (13 April 1823 – 7 February 1901) was a German mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He took a doctorate at the University of Jena in 1842, and became a professor at Dresden Polytechnic in 1849. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. He was also an important textbook writer, and editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, of which he was a founder in 1856. He published in 1868 for the first time the dissection paradox, earlier invented by Sam Loyd. In 1862, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. See also Cauchy–Schlömilch transformation Schlömilch's series Schlömilch Generalization Paradox of Loyd and Schlömilch References External links 20th-century German mathematicians Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1823 births 1901 deaths