Background
Schuster was born in Munich in 1851.
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Edmund Schuster
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He studied in Bonn and Leipzig, and in 1875 he moved with his family to Chile.
Career
After a short period in Santiago de Chile he moved to Valdivia, in the south of the country, where he lived until his death, in 1932. In Valdivia, Schuster initiated a school of mathematics and founded the Acta Philosophica Valdiviana, in 1876. Schuster is known in the field of harmonic analysis for the function that receives his name, whose analytic structure exhibits interesting properties.
In particular, its roots, usually denoted, are given by
where is the complex conjugate of.
This function is used also in physics. Schuster has also made contributions to civil engineering.
