Leopold Kronecker

Leopold Kronecker (7 December 1823 Liegnitz, Prussia - 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician of Jewish descent.

At first he was a business man and earned a lot of money.  Then he devoted himself to mathematics.  He is famous for his work on number theory, determinant and algebra.  He criticized Cantor's work on set theory.  He was a pupil and lifelong friend of Ernst Kummer.

References
 Eric Temple Bell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Penguin books 1953.

Category:1823 births
Category:1891 deaths
Category:Foreign Members of the Royal Society
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Category:Jewish German scientists
Category:German number theorists
Category:German algebraists