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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instanceOf German mathematician
human
mathematician
academicAdvisor Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
countryOfCitizenship Germany
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
dateOfBirth 1823-12-07
dateOfDeath 1891-12-29
doctoralAdvisor Ernst Eduard Kummer
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
educatedAt Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

University of Breslau
employer Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin
ethnicGroup German
familyName Leopold Kronecker self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kronecker
fieldOfWork algebra
foundations of mathematics
mathematical logic
mathematics
number theory
givenName Leopold
influenced Hermann Weyl
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
constructivist mathematics
influencedBy Carl Friedrich Gauss
Ernst Eduard Kummer
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf Prussian Academy of Sciences
movement constructivism in mathematics
finitism
nativeLanguage German
notableIdea Kronecker’s finitism
arithmetization of analysis
rejection of actual infinity
“God made the integers, all else is the work of man”
notableStudent Kurt Hensel
notableWork Kronecker delta
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
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia

Battle of Legnica
surface form: Liegnitz

Prussian Silesia
surface form: Province of Silesia
placeOfDeath Berlin
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
positionHeld professor of mathematics
religion Judaism
sexOrGender male

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Prussian Academy of Sciences notableMember Leopold Kronecker
David Hilbert influencedBy Leopold Kronecker
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Georg Cantor academicAdvisor Leopold Kronecker
Kronecker’s finitism namedAfter Leopold Kronecker
Kronecker–Weber theorem namedAfter Leopold Kronecker
Kronecker–Weber theorem provedBy Leopold Kronecker
Kronecker’s lemma namedAfter Leopold Kronecker
Kronecker delta namedAfter Leopold Kronecker
Kronecker product namedAfter Leopold Kronecker
Ernst Eduard Kummer notableStudent Leopold Kronecker
Ernst Eduard Kummer influenced Leopold Kronecker
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet influenced Leopold Kronecker
Leopold hasNotableBearer Leopold Kronecker
Kurt Hensel doctoralAdvisor Leopold Kronecker
Kurt Hensel influencedBy Leopold Kronecker
Kurt Hensel hasAcademicAdvisor Leopold Kronecker
Gösta Mittag-Leffler studiedUnder Leopold Kronecker
cyclotomic fields studiedBy Leopold Kronecker
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