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For more comprehensive information on the lives and works of mathematicians through the ages, see the
MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
, created by
John J. O'Connor
and
Edmund F. Robertson
The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
--
Eric Temple Bell
Men of Mathematics
, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
Contents
Holy Roman Empire
1.1
Nicholas of Cusa $($$\text {1401}$ – $\text {1464}$$)$
1.2
Christian Roder $($$\text {c. 1410}$ – $\text {1478}$$)$
1.3
Johannes Müller von Königsberg $($$\text {1436}$ – $\text {1476}$$)$
1.4
Johannes Widmann $($$\text {1462}$ – $\text {1498}$$)$
1.5
Johann Werner $($$\text {1468}$ – $\text {1522}$$)$
1.6
Albrecht Dürer $($$\text {1471}$ – $\text {1528}$$)$
1.7
Henricus Grammateus $($$\text {1495}$ – $\text {1525 or 1526}$$)$
1.8
Ludolph van Ceulen $($$\text {1540}$ – $\text {1610}$$)$
1.9
Johannes Kepler $($$\text {1571}$ – $\text {1630}$$)$
1.10
Johann Faulhaber $($$\text {1580}$ – $\text {1635}$$)$
1.11
Nicholas Mercator $($$\text {c. 1620}$ – $\text {1687}$$)$
1.12
Johann Friedrich Pfaff $($$\text {1765}$ – $\text {1825}$$)$
1.13
August Leopold Crelle $($$\text {1780}$ – $\text {1855}$$)$
1.14
Georg Simon Ohm $($$\text {1789}$ – $\text {1834}$$)$
1.15
Wilhelm August Förstemann $($$\text {1791}$ – $\text {1836}$$)$
1.16
Martin Ohm $($$\text {1792}$ – $\text {1872}$$)$
1.17
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach $($$\text {1800}$ – $\text {1834}$$)$
1.18
Julius Plücker $($$\text {1801}$ – $\text {1868}$$)$
1.19
Wilhelm Eduard Weber $($$\text {1804}$ – $\text {1891}$$)$
Electoral Palatinate
2.1
Jakob Köbel $($$\text {1462}$ – $\text {1533}$$)$
2.2
Elisabeth of the Palatinate $($$\text {1618}$ – $\text {1680}$$)$
2.3
Prince Rupert of the Rhine $($$\text {1619}$ – $\text {1682}$$)$
2.4
Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen $($$\text {1796}$ – $\text {1878}$$)$
2.5
Oskar Bolza $($$\text {1857}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
Esslingen am Neckar
3.1
Michael Stifel $($$\text {1487}$ – $\text {1567}$$)$
Bavaria
4.1
Adam Ries $($$\text {1492}$ – $\text {1559}$$)$
4.2
Simon Jacob $($$\text {c. 1500}$ – $\text {1564}$$)$
4.3
Wilhelm Xylander $($$\text {1532}$ – $\text {1576}$$)$
4.4
Christopher Clavius $($$\text {1538}$ – $\text {1612}$$)$
4.5
Johann Georg von Soldner $($$\text {1776}$ – $\text {1833}$$)$
4.6
Gustav Conrad Bauer $($$\text {1820}$ – $\text {1906}$$)$
4.7
Philipp Ludwig von Seidel $($$\text {1821}$ – $\text {1896}$$)$
4.8
Walther Franz Anton von Dyck $($$\text {1856}$ – $\text {1934}$$)$
Württemberg
5.1
Johannes Scheubel $($$\text {1494}$ – $\text {1570}$$)$
5.2
Johann Wilhelm von Camerer $($$\text {1763}$ – $\text {1847}$$)$
5.3
Wilhelm Jordan $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1899}$$)$
5.4
Otto Ludwig Hölder $($$\text {1859}$ – $\text {1937}$$)$
5.5
Wilhelm Weinberg $($$\text {1862}$ – $\text {1937}$$)$
Saxony
6.1
Petrus Apianus $($$\text {1495}$ – $\text {1552}$$)$
6.2
Erasmus Reinhold $($$\text {1511}$ – $\text {1553}$$)$
6.3
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz $($$\text {1646}$ – $\text {1716}$$)$
6.4
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus $($$\text {1651}$ – $\text {1708}$$)$
6.5
Gustav Roch $($$\text {1839}$ – $\text {1866}$$)$
6.6
Carl Johannes Thomae $($$\text {1840}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
6.7
Erwin Papperitz $($$\text {1857}$ – $\text {1938}$$)$
6.8
Friedrich Engel $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
6.9
Alwin Reinhold Korselt $($$\text {1864}$ – $\text {1947}$$)$
6.10
Ludwig August Paul Wernicke $($$\text {1866}$ – $\text {???}$$)$
East Prussia
7.1
Christian Goldbach $($$\text {1690}$ – $\text {1764}$$)$
7.2
Johann Daniel Titius $($$\text {1729}$ – $\text {1796}$$)$
7.3
Karl Ludwig Gerwien $($$\text {1799}$ – $\text {1858}$$)$
7.4
Friedrich Julius Richelot $($$\text {1808}$ – $\text {1875}$$)$
7.5
Hermann Günter Grassmann $($$\text {1809}$ – $\text {1877}$$)$
7.6
Ludwig Otto Hesse $($$\text {1811}$ – $\text {1874}$$)$
7.7
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff $($$\text {1824}$ – $\text {1887}$$)$
7.8
Daniel Friedrich Ernst Meissel $($$\text {1826}$ – $\text {1895}$$)$
7.9
Ernst von Haselberg $($$\text {1827}$ – $\text {1905}$$)$
7.10
Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond $($$\text {1831}$ – $\text {1889}$$)$
7.11
Carl Gottfried Neumann $($$\text {1832}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
7.12
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz $($$\text {1832}$ – $\text {1903}$$)$
7.13
Paul Albert Gordan $($$\text {1837}$ – $\text {1912}$$)$
7.14
Johann Gustav Hermes $($$\text {1846}$ – $\text {1912}$$)$
7.15
Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
7.16
Felix Hausdorff $($$\text {1868}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
7.17
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld $($$\text {1868}$ – $\text {1951}$$)$
7.18
Emanuel Lasker $($$\text {1868}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
Hamburg
8.1
Johann Elert Bode $($$\text {1747}$ – $\text {1826}$$)$
8.2
Johann Martin Zacharias Dase $($$\text {1824}$ – $\text {1861}$$)$
Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
9.1
Carl Friedrich Gauss $($$\text {1777}$ – $\text {1855}$$)$
10
Prussia
10.1
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel $($$\text {1784}$ – $\text {1846}$$)$
10.2
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk $($$\text {1798}$ – $\text {1885}$$)$
10.3
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi $($$\text {1804}$ – $\text {1851}$$)$
10.4
Ernst Eduard Kummer $($$\text {1810}$ – $\text {1893}$$)$
10.5
Theodor Schönemann $($$\text {1812}$ – $\text {1868}$$)$
10.6
Ferdinand Joachimsthal $($$\text {1818}$ – $\text {1861}$$)$
10.7
Heinrich Eduard Heine $($$\text {1821}$ – $\text {1881}$$)$
10.8
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz $($$\text {1821}$ – $\text {1894}$$)$
10.9
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius $($$\text {1822}$ – $\text {1888}$$)$
10.10
Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein $($$\text {1823}$ – $\text {1852}$$)$
10.11
Leopold Kronecker $($$\text {1823}$ – $\text {1891}$$)$
10.12
August Beer $($$\text {1825}$ – $\text {1863}$$)$
10.13
Elwin Bruno Christoffel $($$\text {1829}$ – $\text {1900}$$)$
10.14
Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs $($$\text {1833}$ – $\text {1902}$$)$
10.15
Louis Saalschütz $($$\text {1835}$ – $\text {1913}$$)$
10.16
Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz $($$\text {1843}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
10.17
Moritz Pasch $($$\text {1843}$ – $\text {1930}$$)$
10.18
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen $($$\text {1845}$ – $\text {1923}$$)$
10.19
Felix Christian Klein $($$\text {1849}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
10.20
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius $($$\text {1849}$ – $\text {1917}$$)$
10.21
Alfred Pringsheim $($$\text {1850}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
10.22
Arthur Moritz Schönflies $($$\text {1853}$ – $\text {1928}$$)$
10.23
Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt $($$\text {1854}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
10.24
Paul Rudolf Eugen Jahnke $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
10.25
David Hilbert $($$\text {1862}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$
10.26
Lothar Wilhelm Julius Heffter $($$\text {1862}$ – $\text {1962}$$)$
10.27
Alfred Heinrich Bucherer $($$\text {1863}$ – $\text {1927}$$)$
10.28
Charles Proteus Steinmetz $($$\text {1865}$ – $\text {1923}$$)$
10.29
Georg Wilhelm Scheffers $($$\text {1866}$ – $\text {1945}$$)$
10.30
Martin Wilhelm Kutta $($$\text {1867}$ – $\text {1944}$$)$
11
Saxony-Anhalt
11.1
August Ferdinand Möbius $($$\text {1790}$ – $\text {1868}$$)$
11.2
Ernst Louis Étienne Laspeyres $($$\text {1834}$ – $\text {1913}$$)$
11.3
Hermann Hankel $($$\text {1839}$ – $\text {1873}$$)$
11.4
Leo August Pochhammer $($$\text {1841}$ – $\text {1920}$$)$
11.5
Eugen Otto Erwin Netto $($$\text {1846}$ – $\text {1919}$$)$
11.6
Hermann Paasche $($$\text {1851}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
12
Free Imperial City of Rothenburg
12.1
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt $($$\text {1798}$ – $\text {1867}$$)$
13
North Rhine / Westphalia
13.1
Daniel Christian Ludolph Lehmus $($$\text {1780}$ – $\text {1863}$$)$
13.2
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet $($$\text {1805}$ – $\text {1859}$$)$
13.3
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass $($$\text {1815}$ – $\text {1897}$$)$
13.4
Heinrich Menge $($$\text {1838}$ – $\text {c. 1904}$$)$
13.5
Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing $($$\text {1847}$ – $\text {1923}$$)$
14
Hesse
14.1
Moritz Abraham Stern $($$\text {1807}$ – $\text {1894}$$)$
14.2
Johann Benedict Listing $($$\text {1808}$ – $\text {1882}$$)$
14.3
Gustavus Frankenstein $($$\text {1827}$ – $\text {1893}$$)$
14.4
Alexander Wilhelm von Brill $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1935}$$)$
14.5
August Otto Föppl $($$\text {1854}$ – $\text {1924}$$)$
14.6
Isaak Bacharach $($$\text {1854}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
14.7
Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl $($$\text {1856}$ – $\text {1906}$$)$
15
Ernestine Duchies
15.1
Carl Anton Bretschneider $($$\text {1808}$ – $\text {1878}$$)$
16
Hanover
16.1
Ernst Werner von Siemens $($$\text {1816}$ – $\text {1892}$$)$
16.2
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann $($$\text {1826}$ – $\text {1866}$$)$
16.3
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann $($$\text {1852}$ – $\text {1939}$$)$
17
Grand Duchy of Baden
17.1
Moritz Benedikt Cantor $($$\text {1829}$ – $\text {1920}$$)$
17.2
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder $($$\text {1841}$ – $\text {1902}$$)$
17.3
Heinrich Martin Weber $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1913}$$)$
17.4
Jacob Lüroth $($$\text {1844}$ – $\text {1910}$$)$
17.5
Max Noether $($$\text {1844}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
18
Braunschweig
18.1
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind $($$\text {1831}$ – $\text {1916}$$)$
19
Lower Saxony
19.1
Karl Theodor Reye $($$\text {1838}$ – $\text {1919}$$)$
19.2
Adolf Hurwitz $($$\text {1859}$ – $\text {1919}$$)$
19.3
Conrad Heinrich Edmund Friedrich Busche $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1916}$$)$
20
German Confederation
20.1
Georges Pfeffermann $($$\text {1838}$ – $\text {1914}$$)$
20.2
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz $($$\text {1857}$ – $\text {1894}$$)$
21
Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
21.1
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege $($$\text {1848}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
22
Bremen
22.1
Carl David Tolmé Runge $($$\text {1856}$ – $\text {1927}$$)$
23
Duchy of Holstein
23.1
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck $($$\text {1858}$ – $\text {1947}$$)$
24
Unknown
24.1
Paul Peter Heinrich Seelhoff $($$\text {1829}$ – $\text {1896}$$)$
25
German Empire
25.1
Ernst Steinitz $($$\text {1871}$ – $\text {1928}$$)$
25.2
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo $($$\text {1871}$ – $\text {1953}$$)$
25.3
Fritz Emde $($$\text {1873}$ – $\text {1951}$$)$
25.4
Heinrich Dörrie $($$\text {1873}$ – $\text {1955}$$)$
25.5
Friedrich Moritz Hartogs $($$\text {1874}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$
25.6
Max Abraham $($$\text {1875}$ – $\text {1922}$$)$
25.7
Erhard Schmidt $($$\text {1876}$ – $\text {1959}$$)$
25.8
Heinrich Wilhelm Ewald Jung $($$\text {1876}$ – $\text {1953}$$)$
25.9
Edmund Georg Hermann Landau $($$\text {1877}$ – $\text {1938}$$)$
25.10
Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel $($$\text {1877}$ – $\text {1954}$$)$
25.11
Felix Bernstein $($$\text {1878}$ – $\text {1956}$$)$
25.12
Leopold Löwenheim $($$\text {1878}$ – $\text {1957}$$)$
25.13
Max Wilhelm Dehn $($$\text {1878}$ – $\text {1952}$$)$
25.14
Albert Einstein $($$\text {1879}$ – $\text {1955}$$)$
25.15
Richard Martin Gans $($$\text {1880}$ – $\text {1954}$$)$
25.16
Oskar Perron $($$\text {1880}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
25.17
Otto Toeplitz $($$\text {1881}$ – $\text {1940}$$)$
25.18
Paul Koebe $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1945}$$)$
25.19
Emmy Noether $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1935}$$)$
25.20
Leonard Nelson $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1927}$$)$
25.21
Konrad Hermann Theodor Knopp $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1957}$$)$
25.22
Max Born $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
25.23
Arthur Josef Alwin Wieferich $($$\text {1884}$ – $\text {1954}$$)$
25.24
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl $($$\text {1885}$ – $\text {1955}$$)$
25.25
Kurt Grelling $($$\text {1886}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
25.26
Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach $($$\text {1886}$ – $\text {1982}$$)$
25.27
Arthur Rosenthal $($$\text {1887}$ – $\text {1959}$$)$
25.28
Erich Hecke $($$\text {1887}$ – $\text {1947}$$)$
25.29
Richard Courant $($$\text {1888}$ – $\text {1972}$$)$
25.30
William Richard Maximilian Hugo Threlfall $($$\text {1888}$ – $\text {1949}$$)$
25.31
Abraham Halevi Fraenkel $($$\text {1891}$ – $\text {1965}$$)$
25.32
Rudolf Carnap $($$\text {1891}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
25.33
Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister $($$\text {1893}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
25.34
Roland Percival Sprague $($$\text {1894}$ – $\text {1967}$$)$
25.35
Heinz Hopf $($$\text {1894}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
25.36
Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann $($$\text {1896}$ – $\text {1962}$$)$
25.37
Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer $($$\text {1896}$ – $\text {1934}$$)$
25.38
Carl Ludwig Siegel $($$\text {1896}$ – $\text {1981}$$)$
25.39
Gregor Wentzel $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1978}$$)$
25.40
Hellmuth Kneser $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1973}$$)$
25.41
Helmut Hasse $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1979}$$)$
25.42
Karl Menninger $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1963}$$)$
25.43
Wolfgang Krull $($$\text {1899}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
25.44
Richard Dagobert Brauer $($$\text {1901}$ – $\text {1977}$$)$
25.45
Kurt Otto Friedrichs $($$\text {1901}$ – $\text {1982}$$)$
25.46
Werner Karl Heisenberg $($$\text {1901}$ – $\text {1976}$$)$
25.47
Walter-Ulrich Behrens $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1962}$$)$
25.48
Oskar Morgenstern $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1977}$$)$
25.49
Camillo Herbert Grötzsch $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
25.50
Reinhold Baer $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1979}$$)$
25.51
Kurt Mahler $($$\text {1903}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
25.52
Helmut Grunsky $($$\text {1904}$ – $\text {1986}$$)$
25.53
Hans Lewy $($$\text {1904}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
25.54
Hans Freudenthal $($$\text {1905}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
25.55
Max August Zorn $($$\text {1906}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
25.56
Willi Ludwig August Rinow $($$\text {1907}$ – $\text {1979}$$)$
25.57
Karl Johannes Herbert Seifert $($$\text {1907}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
25.58
Theodore Samuel Motzkin $($$\text {1908}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
25.59
Werner Romberg $($$\text {1909}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
25.60
Bernhard Hermann Neumann $($$\text {1909}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
25.61
Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen $($$\text {1909}$ – $\text {1945}$$)$
25.62
Fritz John $($$\text {1910}$ – $\text {1994}$$)$
25.63
Lothar Collatz $($$\text {1910}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
25.64
Helmut Wielandt $($$\text {1910}$ – $\text {2001}$$)$
25.65
Fritz Oberhettinger $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
25.66
Walter Ledermann $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
25.67
Theodor Schneider $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
25.68
Ernst Witt $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
25.69
Hans Julius Zassenhaus $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
25.70
Karl Stein $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
25.71
Paul Julius Oswald Teichmüller $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$
25.72
Hanna Neumann $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
25.73
Horst Feistel $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
25.74
Wolfgang Doeblin $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1940}$$)$
25.75
Abraham Robinson $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1974}$$)$
26
Weimar Republic
26.1
Richard Friederich Arens $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
26.2
Gerhard Ringel $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
26.3
Martin Hugo Löb $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
26.4
Gerd Edzard Harry Reuter $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
26.5
Erwin O. Kreyszig $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
26.6
Ernst Gabor Straus $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1983}$$)$
26.7
Lewis Richard Benjamin Elton $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
26.8
Paul Moritz Cohn $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
26.9
Hans-Egon Richert $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
26.10
Helmut Heinrich Schaefer $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
26.11
Klaus Friedrich Roth $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
26.12
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
26.13
Theo Hahn $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
26.14
Alexander Grothendieck $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
26.15
Wolfgang Haken $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2022}$$)$
26.16
Jürgen Kurt Moser $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
26.17
Erich Müller-Pfeiffer $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
26.18
Robert John Aumann $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
26.19
Reinhold Remmert $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
26.20
Karl Heinrich Hofmann $($$\text {b. 1932}$$)$
26.21
Uta Caecilia Merzbach $($$\text {1933}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
27
3rd Reich
27.1
Volker Strassen $($$\text {b. 1936}$$)$
27.2
Stefan Oscar Walter Hildebrandt $($$\text {1936}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
27.3
Bernd Fischer $($$\text {1936}$ – $\text {2020}$$)$
27.4
Wilfrid Keller $($$\text {b. 1937}$$)$
27.5
Horst-Günter Zimmer $($$\text {1937}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
27.6
Jürgen Neukirch $($$\text {1937}$ – $\text {1997}$$)$
27.7
Heiko Harborth $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$
27.8
Peter Schreiber $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$
27.9
Bernhard H. Korte $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$
27.10
Gunther Schmidt $($$\text {b. 1939}$$)$
27.11
Christoph Bandelow $($$\text {1939}$ – $\text {2011}$$)$
27.12
Hans Jürgen Weber $($$\text {b. 1939}$$)$
27.13
Dietmar Vogt $($$\text {b. 1941}$$)$
27.14
Eberhard Freitag $($$\text {b. 1942}$$)$
27.15
Gerhard Frey $($$\text {b. 1944}$$)$
28
Post-War Occupation
28.1
Soviet Zone
28.1.1
Ingmar Lehmann $($$\text {b. 1946}$$)$
28.2
American Zone
28.2.1
Thomas Royen $($$\text {b. 1947}$$)$
28.2.2
Andreas Raphael Blass $($$\text {b. 1947}$$)$
29
East Germany
29.1
Gerd Rudolph $($$\text {b. 1950}$$)$
29.2
René L. Schilling $($$\text {b. 1969}$$)$
30
West Germany
30.1
Dietmar Arno Salamon $($$\text {b. 1953}$$)$
30.2
Gerd Faltings $($$\text {b. 1954}$$)$
30.3
Reinhard Diestel $($$\text {b. 1959}$$)$
30.4
Roland Girgensohn $($$\text {b. 1964}$$)$
30.5
Jens Vygen $($$\text {b. 1967}$$)$
30.6
Torsten Wedhorn $($$\text {b. 1970}$$)$
Holy Roman Empire
Nicholas of Cusa $($$\text {1401}$ – $\text {1464}$$)$
German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer.
Believed he had calculated $\pi$ exactly, as $3 \cdotp 1423$, but then also gave a good trigonometrical approximation later used by
Willebrord van Royen Snell
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Christian Roder $($$\text {c. 1410}$ – $\text {1478}$$)$
German professor of Erfurt University at the time of
Regiomontanus
, who corresponded with him.
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Johannes Müller von Königsberg $($$\text {1436}$ – $\text {1476}$$)$
German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, translator, instrument maker and Catholic bishop.
Pupil of
Georg von Peuerbach
, whose uncompleted work he continued.
Set up a printing press at Nuremberg in $\text {1471}$ – $\text {1472}$ for printing scientific works.
First publisher of such scientific literature.
Became internationally famous within his own lifetime.
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Johannes Widmann $($$\text {1462}$ – $\text {1498}$$)$
German mathematician best known for introducing the $+$ and $-$
symbols
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Johann Werner $($$\text {1468}$ – $\text {1522}$$)$
German mathematician whose primary work was in astronomy, mathematics, and geography.
Considered a skilled instrument maker.
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Albrecht Dürer $($$\text {1471}$ – $\text {1528}$$)$
German painter, printmaker and theorist whose theoretical treatises involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
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Henricus Grammateus $($$\text {1495}$ – $\text {1525 or 1526}$$)$
German mathematician and music theorist best known for introducing the use of the $+$ and $-$
symbols
in the context of
addition
and
subtraction
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Ludolph van Ceulen $($$\text {1540}$ – $\text {1610}$$)$
German-Dutch mathematician best known for his calculation of the
the value of $\pi$
The
Ludolphine number
is the expression of the
value of $\pi$
to $35$ decimal places:
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \ldots$
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Johannes Kepler $($$\text {1571}$ – $\text {1630}$$)$
German mathematician and astronomer best known nowadays for
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
Inherited the papers of
Tycho Brahe
and spent many years analysing his observations, looking for patterns.
His most significant contribution to scientific thought was his deduction that the
orbits
of the planets are
elliptical
Also pre-empted the methods of
integral calculus
to find the
volume
of a
solid of revolution
by slicing it into thin disks, calculating the volume of each, and then adding those
volumes
together.
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Johann Faulhaber $($$\text {1580}$ – $\text {1635}$$)$
German surveyor and engineer who was also a mathematician of the
cossist tradition
A significant influence on several mathematicians, including
René Descartes
Jacob Bernoulli
and
Carl Jacobi
Best known for his work on
series of powers
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Nicholas Mercator $($$\text {c. 1620}$ – $\text {1687}$$)$
German mathematician who designed a marine chronometer for Charles $\text {II}$ of England, and designed and constructed the fountains at the Palace of Versailles.
Known for the
Newton-Mercator Series
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Johann Friedrich Pfaff $($$\text {1765}$ – $\text {1825}$$)$
German mathematician who was a precursor of the German school, being a direct influence on
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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August Leopold Crelle $($$\text {1780}$ – $\text {1855}$$)$
Self-educated and enthusiastic German mathematician whose most important work was founding
Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
, better known as
Crelle's Journal
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Georg Simon Ohm $($$\text {1789}$ – $\text {1834}$$)$
German physicist and mathematician best remembered for
Ohm's Law
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Wilhelm August Förstemann $($$\text {1791}$ – $\text {1836}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his textbooks, which were standard German grammar schools texts for some considerable time.
Published a series of articles on on the task of rationalizing equations.
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Martin Ohm $($$\text {1792}$ – $\text {1872}$$)$
German mathematician who was the first to fully develop the theory of the exponential $a^b$ when both $a$ and $b$ are
complex numbers
Attempted to reform mathematical education by taking a rigorous approach from first principles.
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Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach $($$\text {1800}$ – $\text {1834}$$)$
German geometer best known for
Feuerbach's Theorem
Introduced homogeneous coordinates in $1827$, independently of
August Ferdinand Möbius
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Julius Plücker $($$\text {1801}$ – $\text {1868}$$)$
German mathematician and physicist who fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry.
Pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron.
Vastly extended the study of Lamé curves.
Published the first complete classification of plane cubic curves.
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber $($$\text {1804}$ – $\text {1891}$$)$
German physicist who invented the first electromagnetic telegraph with
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Electoral Palatinate
Jakob Köbel $($$\text {1462}$ – $\text {1533}$$)$
German mathematician and state official about whom little can be found on the internet.
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Elisabeth of the Palatinate $($$\text {1618}$ – $\text {1680}$$)$
Princess of the
Electorate of the Palatinate
who studied (among other things) mathematics and philosophy with
René Descartes
Her correspondence with
Descartes
survives as a record of the nature of philosophical and religious debates in that period.
Renowned for her intelligence and humanism.
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine $($$\text {1619}$ – $\text {1682}$$)$
Prince of the lines of both the
Electorate of the Palatinate
and the
House of Stuart
, who later in life turned to science and mathematics.
Known for posing the question which is now known as
Prince Rupert's Cube
Renowned for his military flair, but also notorious for his heavy-handed treatment of defeated enemies.
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Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen $($$\text {1796}$ – $\text {1878}$$)$
German mathematician and physicist.
The first to build an electromagnetic machine.
Invented the notation $\dbinom n k$ for the
binomial coefficient
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Oskar Bolza $($$\text {1857}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his research in the
calculus of variations
, particularly influenced by
Karl Weierstrass
's $1879$ lectures on the subject.
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Esslingen am Neckar
Michael Stifel $($$\text {1487}$ – $\text {1567}$$)$
German monk and mathematician who made significant advances in mathematical notation, including the juxtaposition technique for indicating multiplication.
The first to use the term
exponent
. Published rules for calculation of powers.
The first to use a standard method to solve
quadratic equations
Also an early adopter of negative and irrational numbers.
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Bavaria
Adam Ries $($$\text {1492}$ – $\text {1559}$$)$
Influential German mathematician who wrote some important instructional works, including sets of tables for calculations.
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Simon Jacob $($$\text {c. 1500}$ – $\text {1564}$$)$
German reckoner about whom little is known.
Published a book demonstrating that he understood some facts about the
Fibonacci numbers
that were not rediscovered until centuries later.
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Wilhelm Xylander $($$\text {1532}$ – $\text {1576}$$)$
German classical scholar and humanist who translated the
Arithmetica
of
Diophantus
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Christopher Clavius $($$\text {1538}$ – $\text {1612}$$)$
German jesuit and logician.
Best known for:
Clavius's Law
(also written as
Clavius' Law
), otherwise known as the
Consequentia Mirabilis
, which states that if by assuming the negation of a proposition you can prove its truth, then that proposition is true.
Being instrumental in the development of the Gregorian calendar.
Writing highly-acclaimed and well-received text-books.
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Johann Georg von Soldner $($$\text {1776}$ – $\text {1833}$$)$
German mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
Calculated the
Euler-Mascheroni constant
to $24$ places.
The first one to predict ($100$ years before
Einstein
) that light rays would be bent by the gravitational fields of stars.
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Gustav Conrad Bauer $($$\text {1820}$ – $\text {1906}$$)$
German mathematician whose mathematical research dealt with algebra, geometric problems, spherical harmonics, the gamma function, and generalized continued fractions.
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Philipp Ludwig von Seidel $($$\text {1821}$ – $\text {1896}$$)$
German mathematician who discovered the concept of uniform convergence.
Contributed to the field of optics.
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Walther Franz Anton von Dyck $($$\text {1856}$ – $\text {1934}$$)$
German mathematician who was one of the pioneers of
group theory
The first to define a
group
in the abstract sense. The first to study a
group
by
generators
A student of
Felix Klein
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Württemberg
Johannes Scheubel $($$\text {1494}$ – $\text {1570}$$)$
German mathematician noted for his work in popularising the use of algebra throughout Europe.
Also published an edition of the first six books of
Euclid
's
The Elements
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Johann Wilhelm von Camerer $($$\text {1763}$ – $\text {1847}$$)$
German protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer and historian of mathematics.
Also published an edition of the first six books of
Euclid
's
The Elements
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Wilhelm Jordan $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1899}$$)$
German geodeist who conducted surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal.
Remembered for
Gauss-Jordan elimination
, a version of
Gaussian elimination
with improved stability, for minimizing the squared error in the sum of a series of surveying observations.
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Otto Ludwig Hölder $($$\text {1859}$ – $\text {1937}$$)$
German mathematician most famous for his work in
analysis
(in particular
Fourier series
) and
group theory
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Wilhelm Weinberg $($$\text {1862}$ – $\text {1937}$$)$
German obstetrician-gynecologist who expressed the concept that would later come to be known as the
Hardy-Weinberg Principle
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Saxony
Petrus Apianus $($$\text {1495}$ – $\text {1552}$$)$
German humanist and mathematician.
One of his books significantly appears in the painting
The Ambassadors
by
Hans Holbein the Younger
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Erasmus Reinhold $($$\text {1511}$ – $\text {1553}$$)$
German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation.
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz $($$\text {1646}$ – $\text {1716}$$)$
German mathematician and philosopher who is best known for being the co-inventor (independently of
Isaac Newton
) of
calculus
Took some of the first philosophical steps, including the design of a
characteristica generalis
, towards a system of
symbolic logic
, but his works failed to have much influence on the development of
logic
, and these ideas were not developed to any significant extent.
Invented the system of
binary notation
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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus $($$\text {1651}$ – $\text {1708}$$)$
German mathematician more famous for inventing a brand of porcelain.
Worked on techniques in
algebra
, and also investigated
catacaustic curves
Published what he thought was a solution to the
quintic equation
in $1683$, but
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
pointed out that it was
fallacious
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Gustav Roch $($$\text {1839}$ – $\text {1866}$$)$
German mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of Riemann surfaces.
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Carl Johannes Thomae $($$\text {1840}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in function theory.
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Erwin Papperitz $($$\text {1857}$ – $\text {1938}$$)$
German mathematician who worked on the
hypergeometric differential equation
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Friedrich Engel $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
German mathematician specialising in partial differential equations.
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Alwin Reinhold Korselt $($$\text {1864}$ – $\text {1947}$$)$
German mathematician best known for
Korselt's Theorem
which provides a definition for
Carmichael numbers
Contributed an early result in relational algebra.
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Ludwig August Paul Wernicke $($$\text {1866}$ – $\text {???}$$)$
German, later American, mathematician who contributed to the
Four Color Theorem
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East Prussia
Christian Goldbach $($$\text {1690}$ – $\text {1764}$$)$
Prussian amateur mathematician who also studied law and medicine.
Best known for posing the
Goldbach Conjecture
, which also appears as
Goldbach's Marginal Conjecture
, and a similar weaker conjecture known as
Goldbach's Weak Conjecture
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Johann Daniel Titius $($$\text {1729}$ – $\text {1796}$$)$
German astronomer best known for formulating the
Titius-Bode Law
, and thence to predict the existence of a
planet
between
Mars
and
Jupiter
Also active in the field of biology.
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Karl Ludwig Gerwien $($$\text {1799}$ – $\text {1858}$$)$
German military officer and mathematician, mainly known for his work in
geometry
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Friedrich Julius Richelot $($$\text {1808}$ – $\text {1875}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his construction of the
regular $257$-gon
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Hermann Günter Grassmann $($$\text {1809}$ – $\text {1877}$$)$
Prussian mathematician who pioneered the field of
linear algebra
and
vector analysis
His work was way ahead of its time, and did not receive the recognition it deserved until much later.
During his life he gained more recognition for his study of languages, including Gothic and Sanskrit, than as a mathematician.
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Ludwig Otto Hesse $($$\text {1811}$ – $\text {1874}$$)$
German mathematician who worked mainly on algebraic invariants and geometry.
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff $($$\text {1824}$ – $\text {1887}$$)$
Prussian physicist who contributed significantly to the fundamental understanding of
electronic circuits
, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
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Daniel Friedrich Ernst Meissel $($$\text {1826}$ – $\text {1895}$$)$
German astronomer who contributed to various aspects of number theory.
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Ernst von Haselberg $($$\text {1827}$ – $\text {1905}$$)$
German architect and construction official whose mathematical achievement of note was the construction of the
magic hexagon
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Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond $($$\text {1831}$ – $\text {1889}$$)$
German mathematician who worked on the mechanical equilibrium of fluids, the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.
Also worked on Sturm–Liouville theory, integral equations, variational calculus, and Fourier series.
In $1873$, constructed a continuous function whose Fourier series is not convergent.
His lemma defines a sufficient condition to guarantee that a function vanishes almost everywhere.
Also established that a trigonometric series that converges to a continuous function at every point is the Fourier series of this function.
Discovered a proof method that later became known as the Cantor's diagonal argument.
His name is also associated with the
Fundamental Lemma of Calculus of Variations
, of which he proved a refined version based on that of Lagrange.
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Carl Gottfried Neumann $($$\text {1832}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
German mathematician who dealt almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
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Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz $($$\text {1832}$ – $\text {1903}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in many areas, including
analysis
number theory
and
differential geometry
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Paul Albert Gordan $($$\text {1837}$ – $\text {1912}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in invariant theory and algebraic geometry.
Best known for his proof of his finite base theorem.
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Johann Gustav Hermes $($$\text {1846}$ – $\text {1912}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his attempted construction of the
regular $65 \, 537$-gon
Recent research suggests that there may be mistakes in this construction.
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Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his introduction of
$p$-adic numbers
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Felix Hausdorff $($$\text {1868}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
German mathematician fundamental in the development of modern
topology
Also active in
set theory
measure theory
and
function theory
The first to formulate what is now known as the
Generalized Continuum Hypothesis
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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld $($$\text {1868}$ – $\text {1951}$$)$
German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics.
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Emanuel Lasker $($$\text {1868}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
German philosopher and mathematician who was also one of the greatest chess-players of all time.
Inventor of the game now known as Lasca.
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Hamburg
Johann Elert Bode $($$\text {1747}$ – $\text {1826}$$)$
German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the
Titius-Bode Law
Determined the orbit of
Uranus
and suggested the planet's name.
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Johann Martin Zacharias Dase $($$\text {1824}$ – $\text {1861}$$)$
German mental calculator famous for calculating
$\pi$
to $200$ places in $1844$.
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Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Carl Friedrich Gauss $($$\text {1777}$ – $\text {1855}$$)$
One of the most influential mathematicians of all time, contributing to many fields, including
number theory
statistics
analysis
and
differential geometry
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Prussia
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel $($$\text {1784}$ – $\text {1846}$$)$
Prussian mathematician best known for making a systematic study of what is now known as
Bessel's equation
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Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk $($$\text {1798}$ – $\text {1885}$$)$
German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers.
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi $($$\text {1804}$ – $\text {1851}$$)$
Prolific Prussian mathematician, now most famous for his work with the
elliptic functions
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Ernst Eduard Kummer $($$\text {1810}$ – $\text {1893}$$)$
German mathematician mostly active in the field of
applied mathematics
Also worked in
abstract algebra
and
field theory
Proved in $1850$ that
Fermat's Last Theorem
holds for all exponents $p$ such that $p$ is a
regular prime
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Theodor Schönemann $($$\text {1812}$ – $\text {1868}$$)$
German mathematician who obtained some important results in
number theory
Obtained
Hensel's Lemma
before
Hensel
, and formulated
Eisenstein's Criterion
(also known as the
Schönemann-Eisenstein Theorem
) before
Eisenstein
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Ferdinand Joachimsthal $($$\text {1818}$ – $\text {1861}$$)$
German mathematician who made substantial contributions to the theory of surfaces, and applied the theory of determinants to geometry.
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Heinrich Eduard Heine $($$\text {1821}$ – $\text {1881}$$)$
German mathematician who worked mainly in
analysis
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Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz $($$\text {1821}$ – $\text {1894}$$)$
German physicist and medical doctor known (among many other things) for his theories on the conservation of energy, work in electrodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, and on a mechanical foundation of thermodynamics.
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Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius $($$\text {1822}$ – $\text {1888}$$)$
German physicist and mathematician, considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics.
Stated the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.
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Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein $($$\text {1823}$ – $\text {1852}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work in
number theory
Student of
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Died tragically young of tuberculosis.
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Leopold Kronecker $($$\text {1823}$ – $\text {1891}$$)$
German mathematician most notable for his view that all of mathematics ought to be based on
integers
Also a proponent of the mathematical philosophy of
finitism
, a forerunner of
intuitionism
and
constructivism
His influence on the mathematical establishment was considerable.
His views put him in direct opposition most notably to
Georg Cantor
, who was exploring the mathematics of the
transfinite
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August Beer $($$\text {1825}$ – $\text {1863}$$)$
German physicist and mathematician.
Contributed towards the
Beer-Lambert-Bouguer Law
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Elwin Bruno Christoffel $($$\text {1829}$ – $\text {1900}$$)$
German mathematician and physicist.
Introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus.
This later provided the mathematical basis for general relativity.
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Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs $($$\text {1833}$ – $\text {1902}$$)$
Prussian mathematician who contributed important research in the field of linear differential equations
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Louis Saalschütz $($$\text {1835}$ – $\text {1913}$$)$
Prussian mathematician known for his contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis.
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Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz $($$\text {1843}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work in the field of
complex analysis
Student of
Weierstrass
Best known for his contribution to the
Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz Inequality
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Moritz Pasch $($$\text {1843}$ – $\text {1930}$$)$
German mathematician who specialized in the foundations of
geometry
His work served as the inspiration for work by
Giuseppe Peano
and
David Hilbert
in their work to re-
axiomise
the field of
geometry
Best known for his formulation of what is now known as
Pasch's Axiom
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen $($$\text {1845}$ – $\text {1923}$$)$
German mechanical engineer and physicist who discovered
X-rays
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Felix Christian Klein $($$\text {1849}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work establishing the connections between
geometry
and
group theory
Architect of the
Erlangen program
, which classifies geometries according to their
symmetry groups
Noted for the
Klein bottle
and the
Klein $4$-group
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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius $($$\text {1849}$ – $\text {1917}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work on
differential equations
and
group theory
Gave the first full proof of the
Cayley-Hamilton Theorem
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Alfred Pringsheim $($$\text {1850}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$
German mathematician and patron of the arts, best known for
Pringsheim's Theorem
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Arthur Moritz Schönflies $($$\text {1853}$ – $\text {1928}$$)$
German mathematician known for his contributions to the application of group theory to crystallography, and for work in topology.
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Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt $($$\text {1854}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
German mathematician who contributed towards the solution of the
Prime Number Theorem
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Paul Rudolf Eugen Jahnke $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his $1909$
Funktionentafeln mit Formeln und Kurven
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David Hilbert $($$\text {1862}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$
One of the most influential mathematicians in the late $19$th and early $20$th century.
Most famous for the
Hilbert $23$
, a list he delivered in $1900$ of $23$ problems which were at the time still unsolved.
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Lothar Wilhelm Julius Heffter $($$\text {1862}$ – $\text {1962}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work on function theory and analysis.
Also worked on the
Four Color Theorem
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Alfred Heinrich Bucherer $($$\text {1863}$ – $\text {1927}$$)$
German physicist known for his experiments on relativistic mass.
The first to use the phrase "theory of relativity" for Einstein's theory of special relativity.
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz $($$\text {1865}$ – $\text {1923}$$)$
Prussian-born American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College.
Fostered development of alternating current that enabled expansion of electric power industry in United States.
Formulated mathematical theories for engineers.
Explained the phenomenon of hysteresis.
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Georg Wilhelm Scheffers $($$\text {1866}$ – $\text {1945}$$)$
German mathematician whose specialty was differential geometry.
Also a writer of several well-received textbooks.
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Martin Wilhelm Kutta $($$\text {1867}$ – $\text {1944}$$)$
German mathematician best known for co-developing (with
Carl David Tolmé Runge
) of the
Runge-Kutta methods
in the field of
numerical analysis
Also known for the
Zhukovsky-Kutta Aerofoil
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Saxony-Anhalt
August Ferdinand Möbius $($$\text {1790}$ – $\text {1868}$$)$
German mathematician and theoretical astronomer, active in
geometry
and
number theory
Best known for inventing the
Möbius Strip
, although this was actually invented independently by
Johann Benedict Listing
at around the same time.
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Ernst Louis Étienne Laspeyres $($$\text {1834}$ – $\text {1913}$$)$
German economist best known today for his development of the index number formula method for determining price increases, used for calculating the rate of inflation.
A type of this calculation is known today as the
Laspeyres Index
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Hermann Hankel $($$\text {1839}$ – $\text {1873}$$)$
German mathematician who worked on
complex numbers
and
quaternions
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Leo August Pochhammer $($$\text {1841}$ – $\text {1920}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work on special functions.
Also known for the
Pochhammer symbol
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Eugen Otto Erwin Netto $($$\text {1846}$ – $\text {1919}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work in group theory.
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Hermann Paasche $($$\text {1851}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
German statistician and economist.
Best known for his
Paasche Index
, which provides a calculation of the Price Index.
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Free Imperial City of Rothenburg
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt $($$\text {1798}$ – $\text {1867}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his book
Geometrie der Lage
, an important work in the development of the discipline of
projective geometry
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North Rhine / Westphalia
Daniel Christian Ludolph Lehmus $($$\text {1780}$ – $\text {1863}$$)$
German mathematician best remembered for the
Steiner-Lehmus Theorem
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Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet $($$\text {1805}$ – $\text {1859}$$)$
German mathematician who worked mainly in the field of
analysis
Credited with the first formal definition of a
function
Demonstrated that
Fermat's Last Theorem
holds for $n = 5$.
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Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass $($$\text {1815}$ – $\text {1897}$$)$
German mathematician whose main work concerned the rigorous foundations of
calculus
Known as "the father of modern
analysis
".
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Heinrich Menge $($$\text {1838}$ – $\text {c. 1904}$$)$
German classical scholar and high school teacher, who contributed towards the documentation of the ancient history of mathematics.
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Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing $($$\text {1847}$ – $\text {1923}$$)$
German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry.
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Hesse
Moritz Abraham Stern $($$\text {1807}$ – $\text {1894}$$)$
German mathematician known for formulating
Stern's diatomic series
Also known for the
Stern-Brocot Tree
which he wrote about in $1858$ and which
Louis Achille Brocot
independently discovered in $1861$.
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Johann Benedict Listing $($$\text {1808}$ – $\text {1882}$$)$
German mathematician and physicist who coined the term
topology
in a letter of $1836$.
In $1858$ he invented the
Möbius strip
at about the same time that
August Ferdinand Möbius
did.
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Gustavus Frankenstein $($$\text {1827}$ – $\text {1893}$$)$
German-American clock maker, artist, mathematician and writer.
Best known now for being the first to discover a
perfect magic cube of order 8
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Alexander Wilhelm von Brill $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1935}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his involvement with
Felix Klein
in the reform of the teaching of mathematics.
Made significant contributions to the field of
algebraic geometry
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August Otto Föppl $($$\text {1854}$ – $\text {1924}$$)$
German mathematician credited with introducing
Föppl-Klammer theory
and the
Föppl-von Kármán Equations
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Isaak Bacharach $($$\text {1854}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
German mathematics professor who proved the
Cayley-Bacharach Theorem
on intersections of cubic curves.
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Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl $($$\text {1856}$ – $\text {1906}$$)$
German physician with an interest in mathematics.
He bequeathed $100\,000$ marks (equivalent to $£ 1\,000\,000$ pounds in $1997$ money) to the first person to prove
Fermat's Last Theorem
By the time the prize was finally awarded to
Andrew John Wiles
on $27$ June $1997$, the monetary value of the award had dwindled to $£30\,000$.
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Ernestine Duchies
Carl Anton Bretschneider $($$\text {1808}$ – $\text {1878}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in geometry, number theory, and history of geometry.
He also worked on logarithmic integrals and mathematical tables.
Probably the first mathematicians to use the symbol $\gamma$ for the
Euler-Mascheroni constant
, which he published in a paper of $1837$.
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Hanover
Ernst Werner von Siemens $($$\text {1816}$ – $\text {1892}$$)$
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist.
Founded the electrical and telecommunications conglomerate
Siemens AG
Invented the electric tram, trolley bus, electric locomotive and electric elevator.
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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann $($$\text {1826}$ – $\text {1866}$$)$
German mathematician most famous for the
Riemann Hypothesis
, which is (at time of writing, early $21$st century) one of the most highly sought-after results in mathematics.
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Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann $($$\text {1852}$ – $\text {1939}$$)$
German mathematician who made his mark by publishing a proof in $1882$ that
$\pi$ is transcendental
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Grand Duchy of Baden
Moritz Benedikt Cantor $($$\text {1829}$ – $\text {1920}$$)$
German historian of mathematics.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder $($$\text {1841}$ – $\text {1902}$$)$
German mathematician active mainly in the field of
algebraic logic
He is best known for his contribution to what is now known as the
Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder Theorem
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Heinrich Martin Weber $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1913}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in
algebra
number theory
analysis
and applications of analysis to
mathematical physics
Formulated the
ring axioms
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Jacob Lüroth $($$\text {1844}$ – $\text {1910}$$)$
German mathematician who proved
Lüroth's Theorem
and introduced
Lüroth quartics
Discovered what is now known as
Student t-distribution
before
Gosset
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Max Noether $($$\text {1844}$ – $\text {1921}$$)$
German mathematician notable for his work in
algebraic geometry
and
algebraic functions
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Braunschweig
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind $($$\text {1831}$ – $\text {1916}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in the fields of
abstract algebra
, and
algebraic number theory
Most noted for his work on the foundations of the
real numbers
Used the thinking behind the resolution of
Galileo's Paradox
to underpin the definition of an
infinite set
Defined the concepts of
ring
and
field
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Lower Saxony
Karl Theodor Reye $($$\text {1838}$ – $\text {1919}$$)$
German mathematician who contributed to geometry, particularly projective geometry and synthetic geometry.
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Adolf Hurwitz $($$\text {1859}$ – $\text {1919}$$)$
German mathematician who was an early master of the theory of
Riemann surfaces
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Conrad Heinrich Edmund Friedrich Busche $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1916}$$)$
German number theorist who did a lot of work on
replicative functions
and
quadratic residues
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German Confederation
Georges Pfeffermann $($$\text {1838}$ – $\text {1914}$$)$
German amateur mathematician who did a lot of work on
magic squares
and
multiplicative magic squares
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz $($$\text {1857}$ – $\text {1894}$$)$
German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by
James Clerk Maxwell
's equations of electromagnetism.
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Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege $($$\text {1848}$ – $\text {1925}$$)$
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician, one of the founders of modern logic.
Made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics.
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Bremen
Carl David Tolmé Runge $($$\text {1856}$ – $\text {1927}$$)$
German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist.
Best known as the co-developer (with
Martin Wilhelm Kutta
) of the
Runge-Kutta methods
in the field of
numerical analysis
Also known for his work on the
Zeeman effect
His work paved the way for the
Thue-Siegel-Roth Theorem
in the field of
Diophantine equations
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Duchy of Holstein
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck $($$\text {1858}$ – $\text {1947}$$)$
German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in $1918$.
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Unknown
Paul Peter Heinrich Seelhoff $($$\text {1829}$ – $\text {1896}$$)$
German mathematician who discovered the
Mersenne prime
$M61$ in $1886$, independently of
Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin
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German Empire
Ernst Steinitz $($$\text {1871}$ – $\text {1928}$$)$
German mathematician working in
field theory
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Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo $($$\text {1871}$ – $\text {1953}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work on the foundations of mathematics.
Laid the groundwork (later to be enhanced by
Abraham Fraenkel
) for what are now known as the
Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms
of
axiomatic set theory
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Fritz Emde $($$\text {1873}$ – $\text {1951}$$)$
German electronic engineer and high school teacher, best known for his co-authorship with
Eugen Jahnke
of
Funktionentafeln mit Formeln und Kurven
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Heinrich Dörrie $($$\text {1873}$ – $\text {1955}$$)$
German teacher of mathematics and author of several specialist books.
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Friedrich Moritz Hartogs $($$\text {1874}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$
German mathematician who made advances in
set theory
and
complex analysis
Killed himself as a result of the treatment he had received from the government of his country at the time.
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Max Abraham $($$\text {1875}$ – $\text {1922}$$)$
German physicist who studied under
Max Planck
Developed a theory of the electron in $1902$ which was later superseded by different models.
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Erhard Schmidt $($$\text {1876}$ – $\text {1959}$$)$
Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century.
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Heinrich Wilhelm Ewald Jung $($$\text {1876}$ – $\text {1953}$$)$
German mathematician who specialized in geometry and algebraic geometry.
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Edmund Georg Hermann Landau $($$\text {1877}$ – $\text {1938}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in the fields of
number theory
and
complex analysis
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Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel $($$\text {1877}$ – $\text {1954}$$)$
German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.
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Felix Bernstein $($$\text {1878}$ – $\text {1956}$$)$
German mathematician working mainly in
set theory
He is best known for his $1897$ contribution to what is now known as the
Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder Theorem
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Leopold Löwenheim $($$\text {1878}$ – $\text {1957}$$)$
German mathematician whose work pioneered the field of
model theory
Much of his unpublished work was lost when the British brutally bombed his house in $1943$, an act of unforgivable barbarism for which the Brits have never delivered appropriate recompense.
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Max Wilhelm Dehn $($$\text {1878}$ – $\text {1952}$$)$
German mathematician most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory.
Resolved
Hilbert's third problem
in $1900$, making him the first to resolve one of
Hilbert's $23$ problems
With
Poul Heegaard
, solved the problem of
Classification of Compact Two-Manifolds
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Albert Einstein $($$\text {1879}$ – $\text {1955}$$)$
German-born mathematician and physicist. Probably the most famous scientist of all time.
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Richard Martin Gans $($$\text {1880}$ – $\text {1954}$$)$
German physicist responsible for his part in the development of
Mie-Gans theory
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Oskar Perron $($$\text {1880}$ – $\text {1975}$$)$
German mathematician who made numerous contributions to differential equations and partial differential equations.
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Otto Toeplitz $($$\text {1881}$ – $\text {1940}$$)$
German mathematician working in functional analysis.
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Paul Koebe $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1945}$$)$
German-born mathematician who dealt exclusively with the complex numbers.
His most important results were on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces.
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Emmy Noether $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1935}$$)$
German-born mathematician who made considerable contributions to
abstract algebra
and
theoretical physics
Most famous for
Noether's Theorem
which makes the fundamental connection between
symmetry
and various
laws of conservation
Her philosophy and outlook were fundamental in the development of ideas that led to the establishment of the field of
category theory
Daughter of
Max Noether
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Leonard Nelson $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1927}$$)$
German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist.
He devised the
Grelling-Nelson Paradox
in $1908$ and the related idea of autological words with
Kurt Grelling
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Konrad Hermann Theodor Knopp $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1957}$$)$
German mathematician who worked on generalized limits and complex functions.
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Max Born $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics.
Also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics.
Supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Arthur Josef Alwin Wieferich $($$\text {1884}$ – $\text {1954}$$)$
German mathematician who contributed briefly to the field of
number theory
before concentrating on a career in teaching.
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Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl $($$\text {1885}$ – $\text {1955}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in the fields of
mathematical logic
and
mathematical physics
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Kurt Grelling $($$\text {1886}$ – $\text {1942}$$)$
German logician and philosopher who was a member of the Berlin Circle.
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Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach $($$\text {1886}$ – $\text {1982}$$)$
German mathematician working mostly in
analysis
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Arthur Rosenthal $($$\text {1887}$ – $\text {1959}$$)$
German mathematician working in geometry, in particular the classification of regular polyhedra and Hilbert's axioms.
Also made contributions in analysis, including to Carathéodory's theory of measure.
With
Michel Plancherel
, made contributions in ergodic theory and dynamical systems.
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Erich Hecke $($$\text {1887}$ – $\text {1947}$$)$
German mathematician working mainly in functional analysis.
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Richard Courant $($$\text {1888}$ – $\text {1972}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his writings.
Made considerable contributions to the field
numerical analysis
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William Richard Maximilian Hugo Threlfall $($$\text {1888}$ – $\text {1949}$$)$
German mathematician whose main work was in
topology
Collaborated extensively with
Karl Johannes Herbert Seifert
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Abraham Halevi Fraenkel $($$\text {1891}$ – $\text {1965}$$)$
German-born Israeli Hungarian mathematician best known for his work on
axiomatic set theory
He improved
Ernst Zermelo
's axiomatic system, and out of that work came the
Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms
He also wrote on topics in the history of mathematics.
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Rudolf Carnap $($$\text {1891}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter.
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Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister $($$\text {1893}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
German mathematician whose interests were mainly in combinatorial group theory, combinatorial topology, geometric group theory, and the foundations of geometry.
Also a pioneer of knot theory.
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Roland Percival Sprague $($$\text {1894}$ – $\text {1967}$$)$
German mathematician, known for the
Sprague-Grundy Theorem
and for being the first mathematician to find a
perfect squared square
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Heinz Hopf $($$\text {1894}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
German mathematician who worked on the fields of topology and geometry.
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Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann $($$\text {1896}$ – $\text {1962}$$)$
German mathematician, best known for the
Ackermann function
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Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer $($$\text {1896}$ – $\text {1934}$$)$
German mathematician who worked on
abelian groups
algebraic numbers
knot theory
and
Sturm-Liouville theory
Provided an ingenious proof of
Cayley's Formula
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Carl Ludwig Siegel $($$\text {1896}$ – $\text {1981}$$)$
German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory.
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Gregor Wentzel $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1978}$$)$
German physicist best known for development of quantum mechanics
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Hellmuth Kneser $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1973}$$)$
German mathematician, who made notable contributions to
group theory
and
topology
Derived the theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for
$3$-manifolds
Originated the concept of a
normal surface
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Helmut Hasse $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1979}$$)$
German mathematician who worked mainly in
algebraic number theory
and
class field theory
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Karl Menninger $($$\text {1898}$ – $\text {1963}$$)$
German teacher of and writer about mathematics.
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Wolfgang Krull $($$\text {1899}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
Made significant contributions to many areas of commutative algebra.
Much of his work was influenced by
Felix Klein
and
Emmy Noether
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Richard Dagobert Brauer $($$\text {1901}$ – $\text {1977}$$)$
German / American mathematician who worked mainly in abstract algebra.
Made important contributions to number theory.
Founder of modular representation theory.
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs $($$\text {1901}$ – $\text {1982}$$)$
German applied mathematician whose major contribution was his work on partial differential equations.
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Werner Karl Heisenberg $($$\text {1901}$ – $\text {1976}$$)$
German theoretical physicist who was one of the key pioneers of
quantum mechanics
With
Niels Bohr
, formulated the
Copenhagen interpretation
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Walter-Ulrich Behrens $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1962}$$)$
German chemist and statistician who co-discovered with
Ronald Aylmer Fisher
the
Behrens-Fisher problem
and the associated
Behrens-Fisher distribution
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Oskar Morgenstern $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1977}$$)$
German-born economist notable for founding the field of
game theory
in collaboration with
John von Neumann
, and applying it to
economics
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Camillo Herbert Grötzsch $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
German mathematician working mainly in
graph theory
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Reinhold Baer $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1979}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work in algebra.
Introduced the concept of an
injective module
in $1940$.
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Kurt Mahler $($$\text {1903}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
German mathematician working mainly in
analysis
and
number theory
Proved the
Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant
and
Champernowne constant
to be
transcendental
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Helmut Grunsky $($$\text {1904}$ – $\text {1986}$$)$
German mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory.
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Hans Lewy $($$\text {1904}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables.
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Hans Freudenthal $($$\text {1905}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
German born Dutch mathematician, made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
Took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education.
One of the most important figures in mathematics education in the $20$th century.
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Max August Zorn $($$\text {1906}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
German-born American mathematician who worked in
algebra
set theory
and
numerical analysis
Best known for
Zorn's Lemma
, which he discovered in 1935. This is also known as the
Kuratowski-Zorn Lemma
, thereby acknowledging the work of
Kazimierz Kuratowski
who had published
a version of it
in 1922.
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Willi Ludwig August Rinow $($$\text {1907}$ – $\text {1979}$$)$
German mathematician who specialized in differential geometry and topology.
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Karl Johannes Herbert Seifert $($$\text {1907}$ – $\text {1996}$$)$
German mathematician who worked mainly in
topology
and
knot theory
Collaborated extensively with
William Threlfall
One of the few who managed to weather the 2nd World War without upsetting either the Nazis or the Allies.
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Theodore Samuel Motzkin $($$\text {1908}$ – $\text {1970}$$)$
German-born Israeli-American mathematician who was one of the pioneers of linear programming.
Also published in the fields of algebra, graph theory, approximation theory, combinatorics, numerical analysis, algebraic geometry and number theory.
Worked as a cryptographer for the British government during World War II.
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Werner Romberg $($$\text {1909}$ – $\text {2003}$$)$
German mathematician and physicist.
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Bernhard Hermann Neumann $($$\text {1909}$ – $\text {2002}$$)$
German-born mathematician who was one of the leaders in the field of
group theory
Husband of
Hanna Neumann
and father of
Peter Michael Neumann
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Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen $($$\text {1909}$ – $\text {1945}$$)$
German mathematician and logician who made progress in
symbolic logic
Introduced one of the first systems of
natural deduction
Proved that the
Peano axioms
are consistent.
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Fritz John $($$\text {1910}$ – $\text {1994}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work on
partial differential equations
and
ill-posed problems
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Lothar Collatz $($$\text {1910}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
German mathematician best known for posing the
Collatz Conjecture
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Helmut Wielandt $($$\text {1910}$ – $\text {2001}$$)$
German mathematician whose main work was in group theory, especially permutation groups.
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Fritz Oberhettinger $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
German mathematician known for his books on Fourier transforms and Bessel functions.
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Walter Ledermann $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {2009}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his work in homology, group theory and number theory.
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Theodor Schneider $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1988}$$)$
German mathematician best known for providing a proof of the
Gelfond-Schneider Theorem
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Ernst Witt $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
German mathematician working mainly in the field of
quadratic forms
and
algebraic function fields
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Hans Julius Zassenhaus $($$\text {1912}$ – $\text {1991}$$)$
German mathematician who did significant work in
abstract algebra
, and also pioneered the science of computer algebra.
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Karl Stein $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
German mathematician well known for complex analysis and cryptography.
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Paul Julius Oswald Teichmüller $($$\text {1913}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$
German mathematician who introduced quasiconformal mappings and differential geometric methods into complex analysis.
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Hanna Neumann $($$\text {1914}$ – $\text {1971}$$)$
German-born mathematician active in the field of
group theory
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Horst Feistel $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1990}$$)$
German-American cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers
Initiating research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.
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Wolfgang Doeblin $($$\text {1915}$ – $\text {1940}$$)$
French-German mathematician who obtained major results in probability theory.
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Abraham Robinson $($$\text {1918}$ – $\text {1974}$$)$
German-American mathematician who is most widely known for development of
nonstandard analysis
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Weimar Republic
Richard Friederich Arens $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2000}$$)$
German-born American mathematician who worked in the fields of
functional analysis
and
topology
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Gerhard Ringel $($$\text {1919}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
German mathematician who was one of the pioneers in the field of
graph theory
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Martin Hugo Löb $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
German mathematician who specialised in mathematical logic. Best known for having formulated
Löb's Theorem
in 1955.
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Gerd Edzard Harry Reuter $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1992}$$)$
German-born mathematician who emigrated to Britain who worked mainly in the fields of
probability theory
and
analysis
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Erwin O. Kreyszig $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2008}$$)$
German-Canadian applied mathematician best known for his text books.
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Ernst Gabor Straus $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {1983}$$)$
German-American mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions.
Worked as the assistant to
Albert Einstein
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Lewis Richard Benjamin Elton $($$\text {1923}$ – $\text {2018}$$)$
German-born British physicist and researcher into education, specialising in higher education.
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Paul Moritz Cohn $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {2006}$$)$
German-born mathematician renowned as an expert in
abstract algebra
, in particular
non-commutative rings
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Hans-Egon Richert $($$\text {1924}$ – $\text {1993}$$)$
German mathematician who worked primarily in analytic number theory.
Also contributed to sieve theory.
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Helmut Heinrich Schaefer $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
German mathematician whose work was centered on functional analysis.
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Klaus Friedrich Roth $($$\text {1925}$ – $\text {2015}$$)$
German-born British mathematician who won the
Fields Medal
for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers.
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Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch $($$\text {1927}$ – $\text {2012}$$)$
German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry.
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Theo Hahn $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
German mineralogist and crystallographer.
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Alexander Grothendieck $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2014}$$)$
German-born mathematician of semi-Ukrainian ancestry who is usually credited with creating the modern field of
algebraic geometry
His collaborative seminar-driven approach had the result of making him one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.
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Wolfgang Haken $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {2022}$$)$
German mathematician mainly involved in
topology
where the bulk of his work has been on
3-dimensional manifolds
In $1976$, along with
Kenneth Ira Appel
, proved the
Four Color Theorem
with the help of a computer.
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Jürgen Kurt Moser $($$\text {1928}$ – $\text {1999}$$)$
German mathematician mainly involved in
dynamical systems
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Erich Müller-Pfeiffer $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his text book.
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Robert John Aumann $($$\text {b. 1930}$$)$
German-born Israeli-American mathematician noted for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.
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Reinhold Remmert $($$\text {1930}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
German mathematician whose work has mainly been in developing the theory of complex spaces.
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Karl Heinrich Hofmann $($$\text {b. 1932}$$)$
German mathematician working in the fields of topological algebra and functional analysis, especially topological groups and semigroups and Lie theory.
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Uta Caecilia Merzbach $($$\text {1933}$ – $\text {2017}$$)$
German-born American historian of mathematics.
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3rd Reich
Volker Strassen $($$\text {b. 1936}$$)$
German mathematician best known for design of efficient algorithms.
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Stefan Oscar Walter Hildebrandt $($$\text {1936}$ – $\text {2005}$$)$
German mathematician concerned mainly with the calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations.
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Bernd Fischer $($$\text {1936}$ – $\text {2020}$$)$
German mathematician best known to his contributions to the classification of finite simple groups.
Discovered several of the sporadic groups:
Introduced 3-transposition groups
Constructed the three
Fischer groups
Described the
Baby Monster
and computed its character table
Predicted the existence of the
Fischer-Griess Monster
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Wilfrid Keller $($$\text {b. 1937}$$)$
German mathematician best known for his activity in number theory, including the hunt for titanic primes.
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Horst-Günter Zimmer $($$\text {1937}$ – $\text {2016}$$)$
German mathematician who dealt with (algorithmic) number theory and computer algebra.
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Jürgen Neukirch $($$\text {1937}$ – $\text {1997}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work on algebraic number theory.
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Heiko Harborth $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$
German mathematician whose work is mostly in the areas of number theory, combinatorics and discrete geometry, including graph theory..
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Peter Schreiber $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$
German mathematician and historian of mathematics who deals with the foundations of mathematics and geometry.
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Bernhard H. Korte $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$
German mathematician and computer scientist working in
combinatorial optimization
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Gunther Schmidt $($$\text {b. 1939}$$)$
German mathematician who works also in informatics.
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Christoph Bandelow $($$\text {1939}$ – $\text {2011}$$)$
German mathematician mainly working in probability theory.
Also known as the author of books on
Rubik's cube
and other mathematical recreations.
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Hans Jürgen Weber $($$\text {b. 1939}$$)$
German-American physics professor, known for developing a nuclear force (NN interaction) from quark models and a possible connection between quantum chromodynamics and meson dynamics.
Research on isobars in nuclei.
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Dietmar Vogt $($$\text {b. 1941}$$)$
German mathematician, mainly known for his work in the field of functional analysis.
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Eberhard Freitag $($$\text {b. 1942}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work in function theory and modular forms.
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Gerhard Frey $($$\text {b. 1944}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work in number theory.
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Post-War Occupation
Soviet Zone
Ingmar Lehmann $($$\text {b. 1946}$$)$
German mathematician, university lecturer and non-fiction author.
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American Zone
Thomas Royen $($$\text {b. 1947}$$)$
German professor of statistics best known for his proof of the
Gaussian Correlation Inequality
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Andreas Raphael Blass $($$\text {b. 1947}$$)$
German mathematician who works in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science.
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East Germany
Gerd Rudolph $($$\text {b. 1950}$$)$
German mathematician and physicist specialising in
gauge theory
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René L. Schilling $($$\text {b. 1969}$$)$
German mathematician mainly active in the fields of measure theory and analysis.
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West Germany
Dietmar Arno Salamon $($$\text {b. 1953}$$)$
German mathematician.
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Gerd Faltings $($$\text {b. 1954}$$)$
German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry.
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Reinhard Diestel $($$\text {b. 1959}$$)$
German mathematician working mainly in graph theory.
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Roland Girgensohn $($$\text {b. 1964}$$)$
German mathematician working in number theory.
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Jens Vygen $($$\text {b. 1967}$$)$
German mathematician working in
combinatorial optimization
and
algorithmic mathematics
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Torsten Wedhorn $($$\text {b. 1970}$$)$
German mathematician working in algebraic geometry.
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