David Hilbert

Also known as Hilbert

German mathematician (1862–1943)

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David Hilbert was a male mathematician and university teacher born in 1862 and died in 1943. He held nationalities associated with Germany and Italy. His professional fields included mathematics, number theory, and mathematical logic. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and is referenced by 970 other encyclopedia articles.

Hilbert authored works such as *The foundations of geometry*, *Grundlagen der Mathmatik*, and *Hilbertiana*. He also wrote about Hermann Minkowski and *Grundlagen der Geometrie*. His published works count varies across sources, with records indicating five or 77 works. He has an Erdős number of 4.

Quotes attributed to him include statements on the nature of science and mathematics. He stated that every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics. He also noted that mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries.

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Lifespan: 1862–1943
Nationality: DE, IT, XX
Role / Field: Mathematiciens, Vysokoskolsti ucitele, Pracownice i pracownicy naukowi, Matematycy, Matematikis, Matematika
Language: ger, deu
Gender: Male

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: David
Gender: male
Citizenship: Nazi Germany
Place of birth: Kaliningrad
Place of death: Göttingen
Educated at: Collegium Fridericianum
Employer: University of Göttingen
Languages spoken: German
Award: Goethe Medal for Art and Science
Notable work: Hilbert's basis theorem
Academic degree: doctorate
Doctoral advisor: Heinrich Martin Weber
Doctoral student: Hyman Levy
Field of work: mathematical physics
Image: Hilbert.jpg
Work location: Göttingen
Residence: Germany

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member of: American Philosophical Society
place of burial: Göttingen City Cemetery
Commons category: David Hilbert
date of birth: 1862-01-23
date of death: 1943-02-14
topic's main category: Category:David Hilbert
Commons gallery: David Hilbert
Erdős number: 4
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language: David Hilbert
ethnic group: Germans
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011384
influenced by: Immanuel Kant
writing language: German
interested in: configuration
medical condition: pernicious anemia
student: Otto Blumenthal
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
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archives at: Göttingen State and University Library

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Encyclopedic overview

David Hilbert (/ˈhɪlbərt/; German: [ˈdaːvɪt ˈhɪlbɐt]; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of all time.

Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas including invariant theory, the calculus of variations, commutative algebra, algebraic number theory, the foundations of geometry, spectral theory of operators and its application to integral equations, mathematical physics, and the foundations of mathematics (particularly proof theory). He adopted and defended Georg Cantor's set theory and transfinite numbers. In 1900, he presented a collection of problems that set a course for mathematical research of the 20th century.

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