Leopold Kronecker
Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Heinrich Weber quoted Kronecker 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.
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- Born in
- Legnica
- Educated at
- Liegnitz Ritter-AkademieFrederick William University Berlin
- Awards
- 🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Johann Franz Encke
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Kurt Hensel📖 Adolf Kneser📖 Ludwig Schlesinger📖 Paul Stäckel📖 Mathias Lerch
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1823
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Birth1891
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