This cut short what had promised to be a stunning mathematical career with his brilliant book Kummer's quartic surface being published by Cambridge University Press in the year of his death.
Ito mapugto kung ano ang had ipinangako upang maging isang napakaganda matematiko karera sa kanyang maningning libro Kummer's quartic ibabaw inilalathala sa pamamagitan ng Cambridge University Press sa taon ng kanyang kamatayan.