Leopold Kronecker

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German mathematician human mathematician

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.

Aliases (1)

Kronecker ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German mathematician → human → mathematician →
academicAdvisor	Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi →
countryOfCitizenship	Germany → Kingdom of Prussia →
dateOfBirth	1823-12-07 →
dateOfDeath	1891-12-29 →
doctoralAdvisor	Ernst Eduard Kummer → Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet →
educatedAt	University of Berlin → University of Breslau →
employer	University of Berlin →
ethnicGroup	German →
familyName	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	Kingdom of Prussia → Liegnitz → Province of Silesia →
placeOfDeath	Berlin → Kingdom of Prussia →
positionHeld	professor of mathematics →
religion	Judaism →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Georg Cantor →	academicAdvisor
Leopold Kronecker ("Kronecker") →	familyName
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae →	hasInfluencedPerson
David Hilbert →	influencedBy
Prussian Academy of Sciences →	notableMember