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Bernhard Riemann

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk


Bernhard Riemann
ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛʁnhaʁt ˈʁiːman] ( listen);[1][2] 17 September 1826 – 20
July 1866) was a German mathematician who made profound
contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential
geometry. In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the
first rigorous formulation of the integral, the Riemann integral,
and his work on Fourier series. His contributions to complex
analysis include most notably the introduction of Riemann
surfaces, breaking new ground in a natural, geometric treatment
of complex analysis. His 1859 paper on the prime-counting
function, containing the original statement of the Riemann
hypothesis, is regarded as a foundational paper of analytic
number theory. Through his pioneering contributions to
differential geometry, Riemann laid the foundations of the
mathematics of general relativity. He is considered by many to be Riemann c. 1863
one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.[3][4]
Born Georg Friedrich
Bernhard
Biography Riemann
17 September
1826
Early years
Breselenz,
Kingdom of
Riemann was born on 17 September 1826 in Breselenz, a village
near Dannenberg in the Kingdom of Hanover. His father, Hanover
Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, was a poor Lutheran pastor in (modern-day
Breselenz who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. His mother, Germany)
Charlotte Ebell, died before her children had reached adulthood. Died 20 July 1866
Riemann was the second of six children, shy and suffering from (aged 39)
numerous nervous breakdowns. Riemann exhibited exceptional
Selasca,
mathematical talent, such as calculation abilities, from an early
Kingdom of Italy
age but suffered from timidity and a fear of speaking in public.
Alma mater University of
Göttingen
Education
University of
During 1840, Riemann went to Hanover to live with his Berlin
grandmother and attend lyceum (middle school years). After the Known for See list
death of his grandmother in 1842, he attended high school at the
Scientific career
Johanneum Lüneburg. In high school, Riemann studied the Bible
intensively, but he was often distracted by mathematics. His Fields Mathematics ·
teachers were amazed by his ability to perform complicated Physics
mathematical operations, in which he often outstripped his Institutions University of
Göttingen

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