Biography And Achievements Of Bernhard Riemann: A Prominent German Mathematician

Bernhard Riemann is a German mathematician who has, discovered math lasting consequences. His full name is Georg Friedrich Bernhard RIemann. He also wrote a novel that talks about the study of geometry. Riemann was a pure genius and his remarkable contributions to the mathematical world has indeed shown his inventiveness. He made an essential contribution to the function complex analysis, and number theory.

Bernhard grew up in a low-income family, where his father was a pastor, and his mother died when he was a young child. Growing up, he had social anxiety, meaning he was scared to speak or even look at others, and he was scared of being judged because he didn't have a mother. Throughout the years, he- always seemed to impress his teacher with his fantastic mental abilities at an early age. One day his teacher recognized his rare mathematical ability, so she decided to lend him an excellent book. The book was about Adrien- Marie Legendre, a French mathematician, who had unique work on elliptic integrals provided necessary analytic tools for mathematical physics.

As time went by, he went to college for math at University Göttingen. Göttingen is a small school. Riemann worked his way up to becoming a professor in 1859 where they paid him poorly, and people say he was a horrible lecturer. On June 3rd, 1862 he got married to Elise Koch. But shortly after in 1862, he felt like he had “TB” (Tuberculosis). TB is where the Blood vessels can also be eroded by advancing disease, causing the Riemann to cough up bright red blood.

Riemann developed a type of consists of two geometries based on anxioms. Different to the hyperbolic geometry of Janos Bolyai a Hungarian Mathematician and Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky a russian Mathematician. It has come to be known as elliptic geometry. There is no such thing as parallel lines, and the angles of a triangles do not sum to 180 degrees (they sum more than 180 degrees). Although it was not widely understood at the time, Riemann’s mathematic changed how we look at the world and open the way higher dimensional geometry, a potential which had exited, since the day of time.

The discovery of the Riemann zeta functions and the relationship of its zeroes to the prime numbers brought Riemann instant fame when it was published in 1959. He had introduced a collection of numbers known as a tensor et every point in space. It describe how much was bent or curved. After his death many of his loose papers were accidentally destroyed, so we’ll never know how close he was to proving his hypothesis. Over 150 years later, his hypothesis is still considered one of the fundamental questions of number theory. $1 million has been offered for the final solutions.