David Hilbert was one of a group of nineteenth-century mathematicians like Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevski (1792-1856), János Bolyai (1802-1860), and Georg Riemann (1826-1866) who for many decades had been reexamining the geometry of Euclid. The...

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 reexamining the geometry of Euclid. The hoped-for goal of...

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 taken in many fields. In some ways, however, his...

Hilbert, David [addendum] Bernays s foundational writings in English, a description of which is available at http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/bernay s/. This edition is scheduled to appear some time after 2004 for Open...

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) in Paris. A new century was dawning, and Hilbert, at 38 already...

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 other areas proved equally fundamental. Hilbert also made significant...

Hilbert, David(1862–1943) David Hilbert, the German mathematician, was born in Königsberg and, except for a semester at Heidelberg, did his university studies there. His dissertation, presented in 1884, was on a problem in the theory of...

David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He invented or developed a broad range of fundamental...