David Hilbert

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German mathematician human mathematician

David Hilbert was a pioneering German mathematician whose foundational work in fields such as invariant theory, axiomatic systems, and functional analysis profoundly shaped modern mathematics.

Aliases (1)

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Statements (67)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German mathematician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Lobachevsky Prize →
birthDate	1862-01-23 →
birthPlace	German Confederation → Kingdom of Prussia → Königsberg →
child	Franz Hilbert →
citizenship	German Empire → Nazi Germany → Weimar Republic →
deathDate	1943-02-14 →
deathPlace	Germany → Göttingen →
doctoralAdvisor	Ferdinand von Lindemann →
doctoralStudent	Erhard Schmidt → Felix Bernstein → Hermann Weyl → Richard Courant → Wilhelm Ackermann →
educatedAt	University of Königsberg →
employer	University of Göttingen →
familyName	Hilbert →
fieldOfWork	algebraic number theory → axiomatic systems → calculus of variations → functional analysis → integral equations → invariant theory → mathematical logic → mathematical physics → mathematics →
givenName	David →
influenced	Alonzo Church → Hermann Weyl → John von Neumann → Kurt Gödel → modern functional analysis →
influencedBy	Bernhard Riemann → Karl Weierstrass → Leopold Kronecker →
knownFor	axiomatic method → formalization of geometry → foundations of mathematics → introduction of Hilbert spaces → list of 23 unsolved problems → work in mathematical logic →
languageSpoken	German →
memberOf	Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities → Prussian Academy of Sciences → Royal Society of London →
name	David Hilbert →
notableIdea	Hilbert’s program in proof theory → finitism in mathematics →
notableWork	Grundlagen der Geometrie → Hilbert basis theorem → Hilbert problems → Hilbert space → Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz → Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem → Hilbert’s program → Hilbert’s syzygy theorem → Zahlbericht →
positionHeld	professor at University of Göttingen →
presented	Hilbert problems at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris →
spouse	Käthe Jerosch →

Referenced by (58)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bernhard Riemann → Carl Friedrich Gauss → Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi → Felix Klein → Ferdinand von Lindemann → Friedrich Bernhard Riemann → Georg Cantor → Giuseppe Peano → Paul Gordan →	influenced
Alonzo Church → Felix Bernstein → Hermann Minkowski → Jacques Herbrand → John von Neumann → Kurt Gödel → Rudolf Carnap → The Logical Syntax of Language → Wilhelm Ackermann →	influencedBy
Hilbert basis theorem → Hilbert problems → Hilbert space → Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz → Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem → Hilbert’s program → Hilbert’s syzygy theorem →	namedAfter
Erhard Schmidt → Felix Bernstein → Hermann Weyl → Hugo Steinhaus → Richard Courant → Wilhelm Ackermann →	doctoralAdvisor
Ernst Zermelo → Hermann Minkowski →	academicAdvisor
Grundlagen der Geometrie → Zahlbericht →	author
Richard Courant → Wilhelm Ackermann →	coAuthor
Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award → Helmholtz Medal →	hasRecipient
Felix Klein →	doctoralStudent
David Hilbert ("Hilbert") →	familyName
Franz Hilbert →	father
University of Königsberg →	hasAcademicStaff
University of Königsberg →	hasAlumnus
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae →	hasInfluencedPerson
Humboldt University of Berlin →	hasNotableAlumni
Entscheidungsproblem →	introducedBy
Hilbert’s program →	mainProponent
David Hilbert →	name
University of Göttingen →	notableAssociatedScientist
Prussian Academy of Sciences →	notableMember
Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award →	notableRecipient
Königsberg →	notableResident
Hilbert problems →	presentedBy
Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz →	provedBy
Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem →	provenBy
Käthe Jerosch →	spouse
Felix Bernstein →	studentOf