Ernst Kummer

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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