“Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk”
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Leopold Kronecker
Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Heinrich Weber quoted Kronecker as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" . Kronecker was a student and life-long friend of Ernst Kummer.
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Born 7 December 1823 · Died 29 December 1891 · Q76410
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2016· 1 entry
spektrum.de: Der Mathematische Monatskalender: Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891)
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1891· 1 entry
Died 1891-12-29.
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1886· 1 entry
“In a lecture to the Berliner Naturforschung-Versammlung, 1886; quoted in the obituary “Leopold Kronecker”, by H[einrich] Weber, in Jahresbericht der Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung, 1893, page 19”
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1884· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1884).
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1883· 1 entry
When Kummer retired from the university, was Kronecker invited to succeed him and became an ordinary professor
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1881· 1 entry
Career landmark: editor (1881–1892).
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1866· 1 entry
When Riemann died, Kronecker was offered the mathematics chair at the University of Göttingen (previously held by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Dirichlet), but he refused, preferring to keep his position at the Academy
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1855· 1 entry
To pursue mathematics as a private scholar
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1853· 1 entry
Wrote a memoir on the algebraic solvability of equations extending the work of Évariste Galois on the theory of equations
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1848· 1 entry
Married his cousin Fanny Prausnitzer, and the couple had six children
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1845· 2 entries
Defended his dissertation in algebraic number theory written under Dirichlet's supervision
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Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1844–1845).
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1844· 1 entry
Studied at University of Wrocław (1843–1844).
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1843· 2 entries
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1841–1843).
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Studied at University of Bonn (1843).
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1841· 2 entries
Kronecker became a student at the University of Berlin where his interest did not immediately focus on mathematics, but rather spread over several subjects including astronomy and philosophy
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Studied at Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie (1841).
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1823· 1 entry
Born 1823-12-07.
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