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Hessian

A Hessian is an inhabitant of the German state of Hesse.

Hessian may also refer to:

Named from the toponym

  • Hessian (soldier), eighteenth-century German regiments in service with the British Empire
    • Hessian (boot), a style of boot
    • Hessian fabric, coarse woven material
    • Hessian fly or barley midge, a species of fly (thought to be introduced by Hessian soldiers)
  • Hessian dialects, West Central German group of dialects
  • Hessian crucible, a type of ceramic crucible
  • Hessian Cup, a regional cup competition in German football

Named for [[Otto Hesse]]

  • Hessian matrix, in mathematics, is a matrix of second partial derivatives
    • Hessian affine region detector, a feature detector used in the fields of computer vision and image analysis
    • Hessian automatic differentiation
    • Hessian equations, partial differential equations (PDEs) based on the Hessian matrix
  • Hessian pair or Hessian duad in mathematics
  • Hessian form of an elliptic curve
  • Hessian group
  • Hessian polyhedron
  • Glossary of classical algebraic geometry § Hessian, other mathematical objects called Hessian

Other uses

  • Hessian (Web service protocol)
  • The Hessian, a 1972 novel by Howard Fast

People with the name

  • Patrick J. Hessian (1928–2007), United States Army officer
  • Stephen Hessian (1891–1962), Canadian lawyer and political figure
  • Toby Hessian (born 1969), British rower
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