Ernst Kummer
Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of a high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker.
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Quotes
[edit]Memorabilia Mathematica (1914)
[edit]- Edited by Robert Édouard Moritz
- Dirichlet was not satisfied to study Gauss' "Disquisitiones arithmeticae" once or several times, but continued throughout life to keep in close touch with the wealth of deep mathematical thoughts which it contains by perusing it again and again. For this reason the book was never placed on the shelf but had an abiding place on the table at which he worked....Dirichlet was the first one, who not only fully understood this work, but made it also accessible to others.
- Dirichlet: Werke, vol. 2, p. 315
- p. 159, no. 977
- A peculiar beauty reigns in the realm of mathematics, a beauty which resembles not so much the beauty of art as the beauty of nature and which affects the reflective mind, which has acquired an appreciation of it, very much like the latter.
- Berliner Monatsberichte (1867), p. 395
- p. 185, no. 1111
External links
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