Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, a German mathematician, produced lasting and revolutionary contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
Biographical Overview
Born in Germany, 1826-1866 Mathematician Established the mathematics for general relativity and pioneered contributions to differential geometry; formulated the Riemann integral, Fourier series, prime-counting function, contributed to complex analysis including Riemann surfaces, Riemann hypothesis, and the analytic number theory.
“Albert Einstein could not have completed his general theory of relativity had it not been for the geometric ideas of Bernhard Riemann.” Hawking (2005)
World View
As the son of a Lutheran pastor, applied a biblical worldview perspective,
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