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...
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David Hilbert Sets an Agenda for Twentieth-Century Mathematics
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In 1900 David Hilbert (1862-1943), one of the acknowledged leaders of pure mathematics at the turn of the century, identified wh...
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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)...
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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, pr...
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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...
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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...
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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 decade...
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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...
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Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
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