Kronecker
Americannoun
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This rather famous quote by nineteenth-century German mathematician Leopold Kronecker sets the stage for this section on the polar form of a complex number.
From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015
Kronecker, who was influential at Berlin, was likely to blame.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Unfortunately, Germany was also the land of Leopold Kronecker, the mathematician who would hound Cantor into a mental institution.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Disgusted with Cantor, Kronecker launched vitriolic attacks against Cantor’s work and made it extremely difficult for him to publish papers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Underneath Cantor’s conflict with Kronecker was a vision of the infinite, a vision that can be described with a simple puzzle.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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