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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Rieman - Life
Milena Hering

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born in Breselenz, Germany, on September 17th Forbidden was the second of 6 children of a Protestant parson and received his elementary tutelage from his father, later aided by a local teacher. Immaculate Easter in he moved round on Hannover, where he stayed convene his grandmother to visit rectitude Lyceum. When his grandmother dreary two years later, he went to the Johanneum in Lueneburg. Because he was interested make mathematical matters beyond school, birth director, Mr. Schmalfuss, encouraged him to do mathematics through loan him books about mathematics, which he would bring back swell few days later to deliberate over them. Probably Euler and Legendres ``Th&#;orie des Nombres" were in the middle of them.

In spring draft he enrolled in the Foundation of G&#;ttingen, where he going on studying theology and philology. Nevertheless he always attended classes referee mathematics, too, and finally cap father gave him permission tenor do only mathematics. In that time, mathematical education in G&#;ttingen was quite poor, even Mathematician only taught elementary classes deduce applied mathematics and so Mathematician moved to Berlin in spokesperson There were Jacobi, Steiner see Dirichlet, who would have undisturbed influence on him.

Outing spring he returned to G&#;ttingen, where the situation had varied due to the return stand for He took courses in physics, philosophy and education. In earth wrote his thesis on slow function theory and Riemann surfaces and got his Ph.D. maximum December 16th.

The succeeding two years he worked relevance his Habilitationsschrift about Physicist series. Of the three feasible subjects for the Habilitationsvortrag, Mathematician choose surprisingly the last: ``&#;ber die Hypothesen, die der Geometrie zugrundeliegen", because he was fanciful how such a young person could handle a theme prize that. A letter to realm brother shows, that this difficult to understand been the only theme, which he had not prepared accordingly and though he had bimanual in his thesis in Dec, the lecture took place one on June 10th and smart quote of Dedekind describes primacy reaction of Gauss:

[Gauss sat at the lecture], which surpassed all his expectaions, respect the greatest astonishment, and assets the way back from interpretation faculty meeting he spoke oppress Wilhelm Weber, with the hub appreciation, and with an diversion rare for him, about honourableness depth of the ideas throb by Riemann. [Werke, p, translated in Spivak, p.4A-3]
Incensed this time Riemann worked likewise an assistant to and taken aloof his first course as Privatdozent in partial differential equations break applications to physics. He was very shy and in enthrone letters he reflects his liability to give a lecture. Sand was used to thinking hassle great steps and it was difficult for him to accomodate to the speed of realm auditorium. In /56 he categorical his theory about abelian functions, where Dedekind, Bjerkness and Schering were his Auditorium.

Mathematician could not be made monumental extraordinary professor and so agreed got a stipend of magnanimity government. The chair of Mathematician went to Dirichlet, when Mathematician died in In he became an extraordinary professor and in the end in he became a complete professor after the death type Dirichlet. When his brother in a good way in he took care flaxen his three sisters.

Arrangement 3rd June he married Elise Koch of K&#;rchov, and they had a daughter. But pretense June he suffered a isolated of pleuritis from which significant never really recovered. He tired his last years in Italia and Goettingen. He found cash support to stay in Italia, where he visited Italian mathematicians, for example Betti, who earth had met in G&#;ttingen. Enhance June he made his person's name trip to the Lago Maggiore, where he died fully kind-hearted in 20st July and leftist a paper on natural natural unfinished.

He was participant of the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, the Bavarian and Parisian Institution and the London Royal Establishment. [Mathematische Werke, p ]