Talk:Leopold Kronecker

message: I believe Kronecker, along with Weierstrass, was Edmund Husserl's chief teacher in mathematics (as mentioned in the Husserl article). Is this fact worth mentioning here anywhere, or is it too off-topic? (I dont know what other well-known students Kronecker might have had.) —rodii 03:26, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure that's really worth mentioning in this article unless Husserl himself made any significant mathematical contributions; in the Husserl article it would seem somewhat more relevant, but wouldn't serve much of a purpose here. Arundhati bakshi 20:32, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It may have everything to do with Kronecker's and Husserl's attitude that objective infinite sets are fictions.96.248.101.32 (talk) 17:09, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: husserl

message: The following infobox has been removed from the article. Pls discuss reasons for or against inclusion to reach consensus.SuperGirl 23:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean with "it is now pretty much standard". If I look at the first twenty articles in :Category:German mathematicians, the first category of scientists, then there is only one with such an infobox. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox

message: I think that infoboxes like the one in this article generally should not have flags because the flags do not contain any information and put an emphasis on information that is not important; also see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (flags). This is even more pertinent where the flag will not be recognized by many people (I have no proof for this, but I feel I'm well justified in making this assumption). That's why I think the flags should be removed. Discuss. 
To make the situation more complicated, Prussia became part of the German Empire during Kronecker's life, so perhaps his nationality changed at that time. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 15:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags in infobox 

message: It might be desirable to clarify the statement "Kronecker solved the quintic equation" so that it does not appear to be in conflict with the Abel-Ruffini theorem, which is often remembered as saying that "the quintic is unsolvable".  Abel's theorem says that the general quintic equation cannot be solved in terms of radicals, whereas Kronecker (according to Mathworld) did obtain a formula for the solution of a general quintic, but it is not in terms of radicals. 208.127.218.127 (talk) 06:22, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solution of quintic 

message: What is this supposed to be?
"---Intermezo-- There are now also people who are like finitism Because we can't walk an infinite route. ---End intermezo---"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.209.254.196 (talk) 21:31, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: I'm surprised that there's nothing about Kronecker's work in group theory here (or at least a reference to the relevant articles. Kronecker's work was fundamental to that area (see, for example, Fulton and Harris).
Rwilsker (talk) 19:07, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Representation Theory 

message: Did Kronecker espouse finitism (as opposed to constructivism)?  Does anyone have a source for this?  Tkuvho (talk) 15:16, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes he did.  He could not conceive a clear constructivism since no one at the time had a clear idea of construction or algorithm, and standards of proof were so inexplicit that people could not well separate constructively unacceptable reductio proof from constructively valid modus tollens.   They had a clear idea of finiteness.  As sources, see Howard Stein, "Logos, logic, and logistike': Some philosophical remarks on the ninteenth century transformation of mathematics" in Aspray and Kitcher eds. _History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematic_, University of Minnesota Press, 1988, pp. 238--59.  Or Eric Temple Bell, _The Development of Mathematics_, McGraw-Hill, 1945, around p. 561.  Sean Walsh in yet unpublished work discusses archival sources of Kronecker's ideas that have just recently become available. Colin McLarty (talk) 13:25, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  finitism? 

message: Kronecker's wife's death is variously said to have been caused by a skiing accident and a climbing one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.150.234.8 (talk) 11:25, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wife's death 

message: While researching the Kronecker quote re integers, I found the German original in an obituary by Weber. The article already has a partial reference to Weber's obituary, but it appears to have an incorrect date (1893 instead of 1891-2), and the link is a redirect to the one I added in a footnote. The 1893 reference could probably be removed as redundant. --192.183.212.185 (talk) 01:35, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for Kronecker quote re integers