Ernst Kummer

✶January 29, 1810

†May 14, 1893

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Ernst Eduard Kummer was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker.

German mathematician (1810–1893)

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