Leopold Kronecker
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Leopold Kronecker was a 19th-century German mathematician known for his work in number theory, algebra, and logic, and for his influential finitist and constructivist views on mathematics.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leopold Kronecker canonical | 19 |
| Kronecker | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
German mathematician
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
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Prussia ⓘ
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Kingdom of Prussia
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| dateOfBirth | 1823-12-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1891-12-29 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor |
Ernst Eduard Kummer
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Humboldt University of Berlin
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surface form:
University of Berlin
University of Breslau ⓘ |
| employer |
Humboldt University of Berlin
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surface form:
University of Berlin
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| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName |
Leopold Kronecker
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surface form:
Kronecker
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| fieldOfWork |
algebra
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foundations of mathematics ⓘ mathematical logic ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Leopold ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hermann Weyl
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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer ⓘ constructivist mathematics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Ernst Eduard Kummer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| memberOf | Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| movement |
constructivism in mathematics
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finitism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Kronecker’s finitism
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arithmetization of analysis ⓘ rejection of actual infinity ⓘ “God made the integers, all else is the work of man” ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Kurt Hensel ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Kronecker delta
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Kronecker product ⓘ Kronecker–Weber theorem ⓘ Kronecker’s lemma ⓘ work on Diophantine equations ⓘ work on algebraic number theory ⓘ work on determinants ⓘ work on elliptic functions ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Prussia
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surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
Battle of Legnica ⓘ
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Liegnitz
Prussian Silesia ⓘ
surface form:
Province of Silesia
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| placeOfDeath |
Berlin
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Prussia ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
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| positionHeld | professor of mathematics ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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Kronecker
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