Kronecker

American  

[kroh-nek-er, kroh-nek-uhr] / ˈkroʊ nɛk ər, ˈkroʊ nɛk ər /

noun

1. Leopold 1823–91, German mathematician.

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Example Sentences

Unfortunately, Germany was also the land of Leopold Kronecker, the mathematician who would hound Cantor into a mental institution.

From Literature

In the late 1800s the famous german mathematician Leopold Kronecker proclaimed, “God made the integers, all else is the work of man.”

From Scientific American

The Mind and Peristalsis.—Analogous to Pawlow's ingenious experiments, with regard to digestive secretion in the stomach, are Kronecker's experiments at Berne upon the motor function of the intestinal tract.

From Project Gutenberg

Abel proved the problem to be impossible; a solution involving elliptic functions has been given by C. Hermite and L. Kronecker, while F. Klein has given another solution.

From Project Gutenberg

A German mathematician, Kronecker, did not hesitate to declare that "the history of mathematics will speak of her as one of the rarest investigators."

From Project Gutenberg