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David Hilbert was baptized and brought up according to the Reformed Protestant Church. Later on however, he became a nonbeliever. He argued that mathematical truth was independent of the existence of God. In 1892, he married Käthe Jerosch. While at Königsberg, the couple had a son named Franz Hilbert (1893–1969).
David Hilbert Mathematician Specialty Math and philosophy Born Jan. 23, 1862 Königsberg or Wehlau, Province of Prussia (today Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) Died Feb. 14, 1943 (at age 81) Göttingen, Germany Nationality German David Hilbert was a good example of a celebrated, established, and scrupulous mathematician. His works helped pave the way for contemporary mathematical
Died: Feb 14, 1943 (at age 81), in Gottingen, Germany. Nationality: German. Famous For: Formulating Hilbert Spaces, a major theory in functional analysis. David Hilbert was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, on January 23, 1862. He was a great leader and spokesperson of mathematics in the early 20th century.
David Hilbert’s Biography The Biography of David Hilbert begins with his birth on January 23, 1862, in a place called Königsberg, Prussia. He was a son of a legal Judge, Otto and Maria, a mathematician cum astronomer.
Apr 19, 1996 · Constance Reid's classic biography is a moving, nontechnical account of the passionate scientific life of this man - from the early days in Konigsberg, when his revolutionary work was dismissed as "theology", to the golden years in Gottingen before Hitler came to power and within a few months destroyed the entire Hilbert school.
- Constance Reid
David Hilbert (1862–1943) David Hilbert was born in K ̈onigsberg, East Prus-sia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), on January 23, 1862. He was the first of two children of Otto and Maria Therese Hilbert. In 1872, Hilbert entered the Friedrichskolleg Gym-nasium (senior secondary school) but transferred in the fall of 1879 to the more science oriented ...
Hilbert, David (1862-1943) German mathematician who set forth the first rigorous set of geometrical axioms in Foundations of Geometry (1899). He also proved his system to be self-consistent. He invented a simple space-filling curve known as the hilbert curve, and demonstrated the "basis theorem" in invariant theory.
