William L. Hosch
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
William L. Hosch was an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica.
Primary Contributions (151)
Zeta function, in number theory, an infinite series given by where z and w are complex numbers and the real part of z is greater than zero. For w = 0, the function reduces to the Riemann zeta function, named for the 19th-century German mathematician Bernhard Riemann, whose study of its properties…
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