Hermann Amandus Schwarz, born 25 January 1843 in Hermsdorf , Germany, died 30 November 1921 in Berlin, was a mathematician.

Schwarz worked in Halle, Göttingen and Berlin, dealing with the subjects of function theory, differential geometry and the calculus of variations.

The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the Schwarz reflection theorem are named after him.

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• Biography at St Andrew's history page