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Bernhard Riemann

Also known as Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann

German mathematician (1826–1866)

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Bernhard Riemann was a German mathematician from the 19th century who made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics before dying at age 39. His work fundamentally shaped modern mathematics, particularly in areas like analysis and geometry, and continues to influence mathematical thinking today.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Bernhard
Family name: Riemann
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Hanover
Occupation: professor
Employer: University of Göttingen
Languages spoken: German
Religion: Lutheranism
Academic degree: habilitation
Doctoral advisor: Carl Friedrich Gauss
Doctoral student: Carl Anton Bjerknes
Field of work: Riemannian geometry
Image: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpeg

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described by source: New International Encyclopedia
member of: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Commons category: Bernhard Riemann
cause of death: tuberculosis
date of birth: 1826-09-17
date of death: 1866-07-20
topic's main category: Category:Bernhard Riemann
medical condition: tuberculosis
birth name: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
name in native language: Bernhard Riemann
student: Gustav Roch
ethnic group: Germans
writing language: German
influenced by: Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
archives at: Göttingen State and University Library

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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (/ˈriːmɑːn/; German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛʁnhaʁt ˈʁiːman] ; 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the first rigorous formulation of the integral, the Riemann integral, and his work on Fourier series. His contributions to complex analysis include most notably the introduction of Riemann surfaces, breaking new ground in a natural, geometric treatment of complex analysis. His 1859 paper on the prime-counting function, containing the original statement of the Riemann hypothesis, is regarded as a foundational paper of analytic number theory. Through his pioneering contributions to differential geometry, Riemann laid the foundations of the mathematics of general relativity. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

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