Ernst Eduard Kummer
Ernst Eduard Kummer made a large impact on the world of mathematics and helped discover and understand different properties of trigonometry and geometry. He helped prove Fermat’s Last Theorem, also known as Fermat’s conjunction. Kummer introduced the idea of “ideal” numbers can go in for infinity. xm-ym=zm. In this case m must be greater than two, and a whole number. Kummer soon found out that that works for all whole prime numbers less the 100 to be m. He won an award at the French Academy of Science for this work. The French Academy of Science had been holding the award to give to the man or women whom completely solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. Yet, the Academy decided that Kummer’s accomplishment was the closest thing to solving it.
On Kummer’s road of life, this extended from his birthday January 29, 1810 to May 4, 1893, his date of death. He attended school at the University of Halle in Wittenberg, taught at the University of Berlin for ten years, and contributed to mathematics throughout his life.
Starting from a poor background, Ernst Kummer really made his way up. It is so inspiring to see what intelligence can earn you, not only a good education and grades, but scholarships and a future.
Kummer was born to Carl Gotthelf Kummer and Sophie Rothe in Sorau, Brandenburg, Germany. His father passed away when Kummer was 3-years-old. Carl Kummer was a physician and originally Ernst Kummer aspired to be like his him. After the very tragic loss, Kummer’s mom, Sophie, worked her hardest to raise him and his brothers and sisters. His sister, Rebecca Mendelssohn Bartholdy was married to the famous mathematician, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet is known for the numbers theory. Dirichlet ...
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There are so many amazing men and women from this time period that really affected the way the world is today. Generations carry out through generations and on and on, the world will never stop growing and expanding in knowledge. It is a crazy thought that one day we may know everything. Although, that is highly unlikely because the world around us is always changing. It is a here today gone tomorrow kind of thing. Mathematics has also improved the way we live by improving technology. With technology we have come a long way, advancing in travel, internet, and just about everything else around you. It is crazy how one thing can link to the next. Ernst Kummer’s role in the world of mathematics did not just stop when he died because it is still being added to today, about one-hundred and twenty years later!
Euler was one of the mathematical giants of the 18th Century. Leonard Euler (1707-1783) was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father was a Lutheran minister and wanted him to follow his path. Euler’s interest was different however, he was a natural mathematician. Johann Bernoulli helped Euler pursue his path by convincing his father of his mathematical abilities. Bernoulli became Euler’s teacher at the St. Petersburg Academy of Science. Euler’s personal life was more on the tragic side. He married and had 13 children, but only 5 survived their infancy. It is said that Euler made some of his greatest discoveries while holding his baby
...nd a functional equeation for the zeta function. The main pupose of the equation was to give estimates for the number prime less than a given number. Many of his gathered results were later proven by Hadamard and Vallee Poussin. Riemann’s work affects our world today because he gave the foundation to geometry and when other mathmaticians tried to prove his theory they accidentally made other profound and significant contributions to math. Bernhard Riemann’s most influential assistors were his professors among them Gauss, Weber, Listing and Dirichlet. Perhaps of the four Gauss and Dirichlet had the most influence upon him, Gauss guided him as a mentor and Dirichlet’s work gave him the principle that his work was based on. Immortal are those who are forever remembered throughout history Bernhard Riemann past away in July 20, 1866 at the age of thirty-nine.
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“’The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries’ (Joseph Fourier)” (Deb Russell). This quote was spoken by a famous mathematician by the name of Joseph Fourier. Throughout his life, Joseph Fourier had made numerous contributions to the math community, many of which are still taught in schools today. From his early years until death, he lived an adventurous life filled with multiple achievements, all of which contribute to the status of legendary mathematician.
She had many struggles trying to receive higher education because of the restrictions women had when it came to furthering ones education. But after many attempts, she was able to study with the great German mathematician Karl Weierstrass. She worked with him for the next four years and then in 1874, received her doctorate. By this time, she had published numerous original papers in the field of higher mathematical analysis and applications to astronomy and physics. But despite all her attempts, and brilliance, she was still a woman in her time period, and therefore unable to find a job in academia. Weierstrass had tried helping her find a job because he was astonished with her abilities and intellectual capacity, but had no luck because after all, she was still a woman.
Christian Doppler was born November 29, 1803 to a stonemason and his wife in the town of Salzburg, Austria. His father, one in a long line of master stonemasons, operated a successful business in town that utilized the local marble quarries. Christian was forced, however, to forgo his family’s business because of his frail health, and he sought other opportunities in the work force. After high school, he attended the Vienna Polytechnic Institute in 1822 on a recommendation by his secondary school professor. There, he began his studies in mathematics and excelled in that field so much so that he graduating from the Institute three years later in 1825. From there, Doppler attended the University of Vienna to study higher mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics. Once he completed his studies in 1829, Christian began working for Professor Adam von Burg who taught mechanics and mathematics at the university. After being Burg’s assistant for only two years, Doppler published his first of eventually fifty-one scientific publications, titled A contribution to the theory of parallels. Doppler would go on to write three more publications before leaving the university to pursue a more perm...
Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland where he was destined to be a clergyman. Yet, it was obvious that Euler had a different calling in life. His aptitude for mathematics was evident even in his early life. His propensity for higher learning was so great that he studied with Johann Bernoulli, who was Jakob’s brother, as a young boy. His time with Johann urged his sense of mathematic discovery. Euler attended University of Basel where he earned his Master’s degree while he was still a teenager. While at the school he barely learned any mathematics because the school was basically a poor school. Due to his own mathematic curiosity and Johann’s private lessons, at the under-ripened age of 16, Euler became a college graduate with a Master’s degree. His curiosity in mathematics allowed Euler to study the works of other brilliant ...
...everyone who loves space and math connects and make future hypothesis and make the world a better place. I think of him as one of the best people to work with math there is. The correlation he made between math and science is something that had never been seen before and maybe the best that there will ever be. I think he changed the way people looked at math for the rest of time.
Michael Guillen, the author of Five Equations that Changed the World, choose five famous mathematician to describe. Each of these mathematicians came up with a significant formula that deals with Physics. One could argue that others could be added to the list but there is no question that these are certainly all contenders for the top five. The book is divided into five sections, one for each of the mathematicians. Each section then has five parts, the prologue, the Veni, the Vidi, the Vici, and the epilogue. The Veni talks about the scientists as a person and their personal life. The Vidi talks about the history of the subject that the scientist talks about. The Vici talks about how the mathematician came up with their most famous formula.
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician born on April 15, 1707 in Basel, Switzerland. His parents were Paul Euler and Marguerite Brucker. Euler had two sisters,named Anna Maria and Maria Magdalena, and he was raised in a religious family and would be a faithful calvinist for the rest of his life because of his father being a priest of the Reformed Church and his mother being raised by a dad who was a pastor. Soon after Leonhard Euler was born, his parents moved from Basel to Riehen. His early education started when he began living with his grandmother were he would learn from a poor school that did not have a way of teaching advanced math. He was enrolled in the University of Basel by age
Since girls were not permitted to attend any college preparatory schools, she decided to go to a general finishing school. There she studied and became certified to teach English and French. Soon after she altered her mind and decided that she wanted to pursue an education in mathematics. In 1904 Erlangen University accepted Emmy as one of the first female college students. In 1907 she received a Ph.D. in mathematics from this University. From 1908 to 1915 she worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen without getting compensated or titled. The only reason she was permitted to work there was because she was helping her dad out by lecturing for his class when he was out sick. During these years she worked with Algebraist Ernst Otto Fisher and also started to work on theoretical algebra, which would make her a known mathematician in the future. She started working at the mathematical Institute in Göttingen and started to assist with Einstein’s general relativity theory. In 1918 she ended up proving two theorems which were a fundamental need f...
There have been many great mathematicians in the world, though many are not well known. People have been studying math for ages, the oldest mathematical object dated all the way back to around 35,000 BC. There are still mathematicians today, studying math and figuring out ways to improve the mathematical world. Some of the most well-known mathematicians include Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Aristotle. These mathematicians (and many more) have influenced the mathematical world and mathematics would not be where it is today without them. There were many great individuals who contributed greatly in mathematics but there was one family with eight great mathematicians who were very influential in mathematics. This was the Bernoulli family. The Bernoulli family contributed a lot to mathematics, medicine, physics, and other areas. Even though they were great mathematicians, there was also hatred and jealousy between many of them. These men did not want their brothers or sons outdoing them in mathematics. Most Bernoulli fathers told their sons not to study mathematics even if they wanted. They were told to study medicine, business, or law, instead, though most of them found a way to study mathematics. The mathematicians in this family include Jacob, Johann, Daniel, Nicolaus I, Nicolaus II, Johann II, Johann III, and Jacob II Bernoulli.
Carl Friedrich Gauss is revered as a very important man in the world of mathematicians. The discoveries he completed while he was alive contributed to many areas of mathematics like geometry, statistics, number theory, statistics, and more. Gauss was an extremely brilliant mathematician and that is precisely why he is remembered all through today. Although Gauss left many contributions in each of the aforementioned fields, two of his discoveries in the fields of mathematics and astronomy seem to have had the most tremendous effect on modern day mathematics.
Burton, D. (2011). The History of Mathematics: An Introduction. (Seventh Ed.) New York, NY. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The 17th Century saw Napier, Briggs and others greatly extend the power of mathematics as a calculator science with his discovery of logarithms. Cavalieri made progress towards the calculus with his infinitesimal methods and Descartes added the power of algebraic methods to geometry. Euclid, who lived around 300 BC in Alexandria, first stated his five postulates in his book The Elements that forms the base for all of his later Abu Abd-Allah ibn Musa al’Khwarizmi, was born abo...