caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality doctoral_students field birth_date known_for residence image article_title name alma_mater
ernst eduard kummer heinrich scherk 14 may 1893 berlin , brandenburg , germany university gewerbeinstitut lomonosov university of berlin humboldt-universität zu berlin university of breslau sorau , prussia prussian gotthold kneser franz mertens hermann schwarz georg cantor hans carl friedrich eisenstein von mangoldt adolf piltz nicolai bugaev -- > georg frobenius lazarus fuchs wilhelm killing adolf mathematician 29 january 1810 bessel and other contributions functions , kummer theory , kummer surface , germany ernstkummer.jpg ernst kummer
 ernst kummer university of halle-wittenberg
ernst kummer

ernst eduard kummer -lrb- 29 january 1810 -- 14 may 1893 -rrb- 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 .
