Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Leopold Kronecker

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic. He criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory, and was quoted by Weber (1893) as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk". Kronecker was a student and lifelong friend of Ernst Kummer.

German - Mathematician | December 7, 1823 - December 29, 1891

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God made integers, all else is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

God made the integers; all else is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

Leopold Kronecker

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

Leopold Kronecker

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

Leopold Kronecker

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Leopold Kronecker

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

Leopold Kronecker

Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

Leopold Kronecker

God made the integers, man made the rest.

Leopold Kronecker

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

Leopold Kronecker

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Leopold Kronecker

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