Riemann,+Bernhard

On September 17, 1826, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born in Breselenz, Germany. Not to long after his birth, his family moved to Quickborn, Holstein. His father was a Lutheran minister, who wanted his son to work at his church, but realized his son had mathamatical talent. When Georg was 10, his father placed under a mathematics tutor, who he soon surpassed. Though he was genius when it came to mathematics, he was too timid to speak in public and tell everyone. In high school, he constantly studied the Bible and mathematics, and even tried to prove that the book of genesis was true mathematically. In 1847, he went to the University of Berlin, and prepared for something called the doctoral dissertation, with the help of a man named Wilhelm Weber, a famous electrodynamicist. Riemann studied the theory of complex variables, which we now call Riemann surfaces. He would then try to work for a Habilitation, a degree that allowed someone to be a lecturer. He work for many months on a dissertation on trigonomics. After that, he would have to give a lecture, so he made one about geometry. The lecture was so good it founded a field called Riemann Geometry. Later, he would try to to become a professor at the University of Gottingen. he failed, but gained a regular salary. Later, after the death of a man named Dirichlet, Riemann became the head of mathamatics at Gottingen. In 1862, Riemann married a women named Elise Koch and had a daughter. In 1866, he died on a trip to Selasca, Italy.


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