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Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823–1891)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 December 1823
- Died
- 29 December 1891
- Place of birth
- Legnica
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Leopold
- Family name
- Kronecker
- Father
- Isidor Kronecker
- Mother
- Johanna Prausnitzer
- Spouse
- Fanny Prausnitzer
- Sibling
- Hugo Kronecker
- Field of work
- number theory, mathematics, logic, determinant, integral
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher, banker
- Position held
- editor
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Religion
- Christianity
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- academic thesis
- De unitatibus complexis
- archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, BEIC Digital Library, Encyclopaedia Hebraica, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- doctoral advisor
- Johann Franz Encke, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- doctoral student
- Kurt Hensel, Adolf Kneser, Ernst Kötter, Mathias Lerch, Franz Mertens, Ludwig Schlesinger, Paul Stäckel, Leopold Gegenbauer, Richard Müller, Karl Färber, Ernst Vorsteher, Olaus Henrici
- educated at
- University of Bonn, Frederick William University Berlin, University of Wrocław, Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie, Frederick William University Berlin
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Royal Society, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Leopold Kronecker
- notable work
- Kronecker product, Kronecker delta, Kronecker's theorem, Q621746, Kronecker–Weber theorem, Kronecker limit formula, Kronecker's congruence, Q3984023, Eisenstein–Kronecker number, Kronecker symbol, Kronecker's lemma, Kronecker's method
- place of burial
- Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin
- relative
- Lippmann Prausnitzer, Jutta Kronecker
- student
- Dmitry Selivanov, Edmund Husserl
- student of
- Jakob Steiner, Ernst Kummer
- topic's main category
- Category:Leopold Kronecker
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