What is Leopold Kronecker?
[[File:Leopold Kronecker.jpg|thumb|Leopold Kronecker]] '''Leopold Kronecker''' ([[7 December]] [[1823]] Liegnitz, [[Prussia]] - [[29 December]] [[1891]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[mathematician]] of [[Jew]]ish descent. At first he was a business man and earned a lot of money. Then he devoted himself to mathematics. He is famous for his work on [[number theory]], [[determinant]] and [[algebra]]. He criticized [[Georg Cantor|Cantor]]'s work on [[set theory]]. He was a pupil and lifelong friend of [[Ernst Kummer]]. ==References== * Eric Temple Bell, 1986. ''Men of Mathematics'', Penguin books 1953. {{bio-stub}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kronecker, Leopold}} [[Category:1823 births]] [[Category:1891 deaths]] [[Category:Foreign Members of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Jewish German academics]] [[Category:Jewish German scientists]] [[Category:German number theorists]] [[Category:German algebraists]]