Ernst Eduard Kummer

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German mathematician human mathematician

Ernst Eduard Kummer was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned for his foundational work in number theory, particularly on ideal numbers and Fermat's Last Theorem.

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Ernst Eduard Kummer canonical	10
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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German mathematician ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ
academicDegree	doctorate in mathematics ⓘ
awardReceived	Copley Medal ⓘ Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ⓘ Copley Medal ⓘ surface form: Royal Society Copley Medal
countryOfCitizenship	Prussia ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
dateOfBirth	1810-01-29 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1893-05-14 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Halle ⓘ
employer	Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ surface form: University of Berlin University of Breslau ⓘ
era	19th-century mathematics ⓘ
ethnicGroup	German ⓘ
familyName	Kummer ⓘ
fieldOfWork	algebra ⓘ analysis ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ
givenName	Ernst ⓘ
influenced	David Hilbert ⓘ Leopold Kronecker ⓘ Richard Dedekind ⓘ
influencedBy	Carl Friedrich Gauss ⓘ
knownFor	Kummer congruences ⓘ Kummer theory ⓘ surface form: Kummer extensions Gaussian periods ⓘ surface form: Kummer sums Kummer surfaces ⓘ Kummer theory ⓘ ideal numbers ⓘ work on Fermat's Last Theorem ⓘ work on cyclotomic fields ⓘ work on reciprocity laws ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	German ⓘ
memberOf	Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ
middleName	Eduard ⓘ
notableStudent	Karl Weierstrass ⓘ Leopold Kronecker ⓘ
notableWork	proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for regular primes ⓘ theory of ideal numbers in cyclotomic fields ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Prussia ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of Prussia Sorau ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Berlin ⓘ German Empire ⓘ
positionHeld	member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ professor of mathematics at University of Berlin ⓘ professor of mathematics at University of Breslau ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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Leopold Kronecker → doctoralAdvisor → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Leopold Kronecker → influencedBy → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Disquisitiones Arithmeticae → hasInfluencedPerson → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

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Paul Gordan → doctoralAdvisor → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Paul Gordan → influencedBy → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Kurt Hensel → influencedBy → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Lazarus Fuchs → doctoralAdvisor → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Gösta Mittag-Leffler → studiedUnder → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

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Rudolf Lipschitz → doctoralAdvisor → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

cyclotomic fields → studiedBy → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

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Book VI → hasInfluentialReader → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

subject surface form: Book VI (Disquisitiones Arithmeticae)

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Philipp Furtwängler → influencedBy → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Elwin Bruno Christoffel → doctoralAdvisor → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ

Elwin Bruno Christoffel → studentOf → Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ