Eisenstein, Ferdinand Gotthold
EISENSTEIN, FERDINAND GOTTHOLD
EISENSTEIN, FERDINAND GOTTHOLD (1823–1852), German mathematician. Eisenstein was brought up in poverty and succeeded in studying at a university despite considerable family opposition. In 1847 he became a lecturer at Berlin University. He made important contributions to algebra and to elliptic functions and their applications to number theory.
More From encyclopedia.com
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi , Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
mathematics.
The second son of Simon Jacobi, a Jewish banker, the precocious boy (originally call… Felix Klein , Klein, Christian Felix
Klein, Christian Felix
mathematics.
Klein graduated from the Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. Beginning in the winter semester of 1865… Leopold Kronecker , mathematics.
Kronecker’s parents were Isidor Kronecker, a businessman, and his wife, Johanna Prausnitzer. They were wealthy and provided private tuto… Poverty , Scholarly as well as ideological debate has long centered around the most elementary questions concerning poverty. What is poverty? How can it be mea… Culture Of Poverty , Culture of Poverty
The theory of a “culture of poverty” was created by the anthropologist Oscar Lewis in his 1959 book, Five Families: Mexican Case S… Sir Isaiah Berlin , BERLIN, SIR ISAIAH
BERLIN, SIR ISAIAH (1909–1997), English philosopher and political scientist. Born in Latvia, Berlin was taken to England as a boy.…
About this article
Eisenstein, Ferdinand Gotthold
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Eisenstein, Ferdinand Gotthold