Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈriːman]; September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866) was an influential German mathematician who made contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them enabling the later development of general relativity.
Riemann was born in Breselenz, a village near Dannenberg in the Kingdom of Hanover in what is Germany today. His father, Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, was a poor Luther...
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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈriːman]; September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866) was an influential German mathematician who made contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them enabling the later development of general relativity.
Riemann was born in Breselenz, a village near Dannenberg in the Kingdom of Hanover in what is Germany today. His father, Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, was a poor Lutheranian pastor in Breselenz who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. His mother died before her children had reached adulthood. Riemann was the second of six children, shy, and suffered from numerous nervous breakdowns. Riemann exhibited exceptional mathematical skills, such as fantastic calculation abilities, from an early age, but suffered from timidity and a fear of speaking in public.
In high school, Riemann studied the Bible intensively, but he was often distracted by mathematics. To this end, he even tried to prove mathematically the correctness...
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