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Leopold Kronecker

1823 - 1891

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Leopold Kronecker (German: [ˈkʁoːnɛkɐ]; 7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Heinrich Weber quoted Kronecker as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" ("God made the integers, all else is the work of man"). Kronecker was a student and life-long friend of Ernst Kummer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold Kronecker is the 93rd most popular mathematician (up from 94th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Poland (up from 106th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Mathematician.

Leopold Kronecker is most famous for his statement "God created the integers, all else is the work of man."

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Leopold Kronecker ranks 93 out of 1,004. Before him are Alexander Grothendieck, John Couch Adams, Thomas Harriot, Stefan Banach, Christian Goldbach, and Jim Simons. After him are Frank P. Ramsey, Joan Clarke, L. E. J. Brouwer, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, and Paul Erdős.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Leopold Kronecker ranks 9. Before him are Phineas Gage, Alfred Russel Wallace, Gyula Andrássy, Ernest Renan, Sándor Petőfi, and Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, Li Hongzhang, Jean-Henri Fabre, John Sherman, and John Russell Hind. Among people deceased in 1891, Leopold Kronecker ranks 16. Before him are Herman Melville, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Léo Delibes, Theo van Gogh, and Edmond Becquerel. After him are Ivan Goncharov, Jules Grévy, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Franz Miklosich, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, and Carl Nägeli.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Leopold Kronecker ranks 98 out of 1,694. Before him are Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Alfred Döblin (1878), Anton Denikin (1872), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Władysław Reymont (1867), and Józef Gosławski (1908). After him are Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Norbert Elias (1897), Egon Krenz (1937), Günter Blobel (1936), and Osip Mandelstam (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Leopold Kronecker ranks 3. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), and Stefan Banach (1892). After him are Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Martin Kutta (1867), and Hermann Grassmann (1809).

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