Bernhard Riemann

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Bernhard Riemann was a 19th-century German mathematician whose groundbreaking work in analysis, number theory, and differential geometry laid the foundations for modern mathematics and general relativity.


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instanceOf German mathematician
human
mathematician
academicAdvisor Carl Friedrich Gauss
Moritz Stern
birthDate 1826-09-17
birthPlace Breselenz
Kingdom of Hanover
causeOfDeath tuberculosis
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Hanover
deathDate 1866-07-20
deathPlace Kingdom of Italy
Selasca
educatedAt University of Berlin
University of Göttingen
employer University of Göttingen
familyName Riemann
fieldOfWork analysis
differential geometry
mathematical physics
mathematics
number theory
givenName Friedrich
Georg
influenced Albert Einstein
David Hilbert
Felix Klein
Hermann Minkowski
influencedBy Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Joseph Fourier
knownFor Riemann curvature tensor
Riemann hypothesis
Riemann integral
Riemann mapping theorem
Riemann sums
Riemann surfaces
Riemann zeta function
Riemannian geometry
Riemannian manifold
Riemannian metric
Riemann–Hurwitz formula
Riemann–Lebesgue lemma
Riemann–Liouville integral
Riemann–Roch theorem
Riemann–Siegel formula
languageOfWorkOrName German
notableWork Über die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse
Über die Darstellbarkeit einer Funktion durch eine trigonometrische Reihe
Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen
positionHeld professor of mathematics
religion Lutheranism


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