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Ernst Kummer
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German mathematician (1810–1893)
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Ernst Eduard Kummer was a mathematician and university teacher from the Kingdom of Prussia. Born in Żary in 1810, he worked in number theory, mathematics, and applied mathematics. He was educated at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree. His doctoral advisor was Heinrich Scherk. Kummer taught at the University of Wrocław, Technische Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie.
He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. His work is recognized in the Royal Society collection. Kummer received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He was a Lutheran who spoke German. He died in Berlin in 1893. His doctoral students included Heinrich Bruns, Leo Königsberger, Nikolai Bugaev, and Ferdinand Rudio.
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Key facts
- Born
- Ernst Eduard Kummer , ( 1810-01-29 ) 29 January 1810, Sorau , Prussia
- Died
- 14 May 1893 (1893-05-14) (aged 83), Berlin, Brandenburg , Germany
- Alma mater
- University of Halle (Ph.D., 1831)
- Known for
- Bessel functions , Kummer theory , Kummer surface , and other contributions
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Berlin , University of Breslau , Gewerbeinstitut , Lomonosov University
- Thesis
- De cosinuum et sinuum potestatibus secundum cosinus et sinus arcuum multiplicium evolvendis (1831/1832)
- Doctoral advisor
- Heinrich Scherk
- Doctoral students
- Gotthold Eisenstein , Georg Frobenius , Lazarus Fuchs , Wilhelm Killing , Adolf Kneser , Franz Mertens , Hermann Schwarz , Georg Cantor , Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt , Adolf Piltz , Friedrich Prym
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eduard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Żary
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Heinrich Scherk
- Doctoral student
- Friedrich Schur
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Ernst Eduard Kummer photo.jpg
- Work location
- Prussia
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1810-00-00
- date of death
- 1893-00-00
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- Ernst Kummer
- Commons category
- Ernst Kummer
- name in native language
- Ernst Eduard Kummer
- student
- Leopold Kronecker
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Sliedrecht
- relative
- Hermann Schwarz
- birth name
- Ernst Eduard Kummer
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Encyclopedic overview
Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker.
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