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David Hilbert
David Hilbert was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of all time.
science · German mathematician (1862–1943) · mathematician · university teacher · philosopher · physicist · logician · philosopher of mathematics · also David Hilbert, Hilbert
Born 23 January 1862 · Died 14 February 1943 · Q41585
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“From now on, I must consider myself as not having a son.”
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legacy.com: James "Mickey" Hilbert Obituary (2026) - Cottonwood, ID - DeFord Funeral Home - Grangeville
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Quantum Zeitgeist: Wikipedia Details Von Neumann Expanded Koopman’s 1931 Hilbert-Space Work
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Quantum Zeitgeist: Hilbert–Pólya Finds Missing Eigenstates In BBM Hamiltonian’s Metric Completion
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Wealth Briefing: Hilbert Names Group Chief Financial Officer
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legacy.com: Harold "Harry" "Swampy" Paulson Obituary (2026) - Rural Hilbert, WI - Pielhop Funeral Homes LLC - Brillion
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SBS: David Hilbert (1862 - 1943)
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The Drum: Kia names David Hilbert as UK marketing director
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Died 1943-02-14.
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“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”
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“Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können.”
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“Wir müssen wissen — wir werden wissen!”
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“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.”
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“If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.”
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“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.”
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“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.”
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The Nazis had nearly completely restaffed the university, as many of the former faculty had either been Jewish or married to Jews
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Won Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1942).
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His incompleteness theorem showed that Hilbert's grand plan was impossible as stated
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1928).
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Von Neumann showed that, if quantum states were understood as vectors in Hilbert space, they would correspond with both Schrödinger's wave function theory and Heisenberg's matrices
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Hilbert proposed a research project in metamathematics that became known as Hilbert's program
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Continued seminars and classes where the works of Albert Einstein and others were followed closely
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Three years after his friend's death, Hilbert turned his focus to the subject almost exclusively
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Awarded Bolyai Prize (1910).
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1907).
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Won Cothenius Medal (1906).
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Awarded Poncelet Prize (1903).
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Awarded Lobachevsky Prize (1903).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order.
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Presented a collection of problems that set a course for mathematical research of the 20th century
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Proposes a formal set, called Hilbert's axioms, substituting for the traditional axioms of Euclid
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As a result of intervention on his behalf by Felix Klein, he obtained the position of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Göttingen
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In 1892, Hilbert married Käthe Jerosch (1864–1945), who was the daughter of a Königsberg merchant, "an outspoken young lady with an independence of mind that matched [Hilbert's]." While at Königsberg, they had their one child, Franz Hilbert (1893–1969).
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Hilbert married Käthe Jerosch (1864–1945), who was the daughter of a Königsberg merchant, "an outspoken young lady with an independence of mind that matched [Hilbert's]
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With a dissertation, written under Ferdinand von Lindemann, titled Über invariante Eigenschaften spezieller binärer Formen, insbesondere der Kugelfunktionen ("On the invariant properties of special binary forms, in parti
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Studied at University of Königsberg, Doctor (1880–1885).
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Adolf Hurwitz arrived from Göttingen as an Extraordinarius (i
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Studied at Heidelberg University (1881–1881).
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Studied at Wilhelmsgymnasium (1879–1880).
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Studied at Collegium Fridericianum (1870–1879).
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Born 1862-01-23.
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