ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
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Most famous for the Riemann Hypothesis, which is (at time of writing, early 21st century) one of the most highly sought-after results in mathematics.
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Nationality
German
History
- Born: 17 Sept 1826, Breselenz, Hanover (now Germany)
- Died: 20 July 1866, Selasca, Italy
Theorems and Definitions
- Riemann Sum
- Riemann Surface
- Riemann Sphere
- Riemannian Manifold
- Riemannian Metric
- Riemann Removable Singularities Theorem
- Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma (with Henri Léon Lebesgue)
- Cauchy-Riemann Equations (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)
- Riemann Uniformization Theorem
- Riemann Zeta Function
- Riemann Hypothesis
- Riemann-Hilbert Problem (with David Hilbert)
- Zariski-Riemann Surface (with Oscar Zariski)
- Riemann-Hurwitz Formula (with Adolf Hurwitz)
Books and Papers
- 1868: On the hypotheses which lie at the foundation of geometry
- 1925: Die Differential- und Integralgleichungen der Mechanik und Physik, 1925 (with Philipp Frank, Richard von Mises and Heinrich Weber) (2nd Edition: 1943)
Also see
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics (1937): Chapter $\text{XXVI}$
- George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems (1992), Chapter $\text {A}.31$
