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Ernst Kummer
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German mathematician (1810–1893)
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Ernst Eduard Kummer was a Prussian mathematician and university teacher who specialized in number theory, mathematics, and applied mathematics. Born in Żary in 1810, he died in Berlin in 1893. He held a Doctor of Philosophy degree and was educated at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His academic career included positions at the Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie, University of Wrocław, Technische Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Kummer was a member of several prestigious scientific bodies, including the Royal Society, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, and Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. Among his doctoral students were Heinrich Bruns, Leo Königsberger, Nikolai Bugaev, and Ferdinand Rudio, while his own doctoral advisor was Heinrich Scherk. His written works include *Recherches sur l'équation de Kummer* and *Ernst Eduard Kummer und der grosse Fermatsche Satz*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1810
- Died
- 1893
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Recherches sur l'équation de Kummer
- Ernst Eduard Kummer und der grosse Fermatsche Satz
- Festschrift zur Feier des 100. Geburtstages Eduard Kummers
- Sull' equazione cubicao ...
- De generali quadam aequatione differentiali tertii ordinis
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,845x
- Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,425x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,850x
- Staging of brain pathology related to sporadic Parkinson’s disease
· 2003 · cited 9,223x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,913x
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Quotes
- “Dirichlet was not satisfied to study Gauss' "Disquisitiones arithmeticae" once or several times, but continued throughout life to keep in close touch with the wealth of deep mathematical thoughts which it contains by perusing it again and again. For this reason the book was never placed on the shelf but had an abiding place on the table at which he worked....Dirichlet was the first one, who not only fully understood this work, but made it also accessible to others.”
- “A peculiar beauty reigns in the realm of mathematics, a beauty which resembles not so much the beauty of art as the beauty of nature and which affects the reflective mind, which has acquired an appreciation of it, very much like the latter.”
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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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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.
Life
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