David Hilbert Summary

David Hilbert 1862-1943 German mathematician whose work in geometry was more influential than any mathematician since Euclid. His work helped to put geometry on a formal footing, while his work in oth... Read more

David Hilbert 1862-1943 German Mathematician Perhaps the most famous event from the long and fruitful career of David Hilbert was his 1900 address to the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)... Read more

Hilbert, David [addendum] Bernays's entry on Hilbert still reads, after forty years, as a wonderful account of the essential contributions by Hilbert to the foundations of geometry and proof th... Read more

Hilbert was one of a group of nineteenth-century mathematicians like Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevski (1792-1856), János Bolyai (1802-1860), and Georg Riemann who for many decades had been reexami... Read more

By the end of his career, David Hilbert was the best known mathematician in the world, as well as the most influential. His contributions did not merely affect but decisively altered the directions ta... Read more