The German mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernard Riemann (1826-1866) was one of the founders of algebraic geometry. His concept of geometric space cleared the way for the general theory of relativity. On Sept. 17, 1826, Georg Riemann was born in...

Riemann was born on September 17, 1826 at Breselenz, Hanover, Germany, the son of a Lutheran minister. He demonstrated a remarkable talent for mathematics at an early age. While still a child, he is said to have tried to demonstrate the validity of the...

Intuitive and original, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann had a gift for understanding connections among apparently heterogeneous phenomena. Almost all his works proved to be the beginning of new, productive research. He anticipated the work of James...

1826-1866 German Mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was a brilliant German mathematician who recognized the application of his work in non-Euclidean geometry to physics, including the shape of space itself. This mathematical advance made an...

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (pronounced REE mahn or in IPA: ['ri:man]; September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them paving the way for the...

John Derbyshire Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics. Joseph Henry Press, 412 pages, $24.95 With the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 1994, Derbyshire says, "the Riemann Hypothesis is now the great white whale of mathematical research."...

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire (Joseph Henry, 304 pp., $27.95) This is a striking and brilliant book, in many ways the most ambitious science-for-the-public attempt I have ever read. John Derbyshire undertakes a...