Hilbert
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1970
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780387049991
First sentence: The fortuitous combination of genes that produces an unusually gifted individual was effected by Otto Hilbert and his wife Maria sometime in the spring of 1861; and on January 23, 1862, at one o'clock in the afternoon, their first child was born in Wehlau, near Konigsberg, the capital of East Prussia.