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May 29, 2018 · KRONECKER, LEOPOLD (1823–1891), German mathematician. He was born in Liegnitz, brother of Hugo *Kronecker. Following the death of his uncle, a successful banker, Kronecker entered the business world. He prospered and was able to retire after eight years and devote the remainder of his life to the study of mathematics.
Dec 7, 2020 · December 2020 0 Harald Sack. On December 7, 1823, German mathematician Leopold Kronecker was born, who worked on number theory and algebra. He criticized Cantor’s work on set theory, and his most cited quote says, (traditionally rendered: “ God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man “.)
Apr 10, 2007 · With this, too, constructivistic criticism of set theory began to emerge, as Leopold Kronecker started to make objections to such infinitary procedures. Simultaneously, there began a study of the topology of \(\mathbf{R}\), in particular in the work of Weierstrass, Dedekind, and Cantor.
Leopold Kronecker. 1823-1891. German mathematician whose primary contributions dealt with elliptic functions and algebraic theory. Independently wealthy, Kronecker did not have to work and pursued mathematics for the love of the field. He became the editor of Crelle's journal after Crelle's death in 1855.
Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic. He criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory, and was quoted by Weber (1893) as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk". Kronecker was a student and life-long friend of Ernst Kummer.
May 13, 2024 · Quick Reference. (1823–91) German mathematician responsible for considerable contributions to number theory and other fields. But he is more often remembered as the first to cast doubts on non-constructive existence proofs, over which he disputed with Weierstrass and others. See integer.
10.4324/9780415249126-Y073-1. Article Summary. Leopold Kronecker was one of the most influential German mathematicians of the late nineteenth century. He exercised a strong sociopolitical influence on the development of mathematics as an academic institution.
