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Accomplishments Of David Hilbert

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David Hilbert was born January 23,1862 in Konigsberg, Prussia. Which is now Kaliningrad, Russia. He started his career at the University of Konigsberg, where he finished his inaugural-dissertation (PH.D) in 1884. He then remained at Konigsberg working as a Privatdozent which is a lecture or assistant professor from 1886 to 1892. Consequently, he started working as an extraordinary associate professor from 1892 to 1893. Nevertheless, he then took a job as an Ordinarius from the year 1893 to the year 1895. In addition to all of his accomplishments, he also married Kathe Jerosch in 1893. They then had a mentally ill child named Franz. So, he took the professorship in mathematics at the University of Gottingen in the year 1895 to help the family out and continued to work there for the rest of his life ("David Hilbert | German Mathematician | Britannica.com"). One of David Hilbert many accomplishments is when he was able to distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics. He is considered to be one of the greatest …show more content…

He has revolutionized the world of math between his work on the invariant theory and his work in the area of geometry. He also had some major breakthroughs in mathematical physics and in the major spectrum of mathematics that contains axiomatization of geometry. He had done some groundbreaking work with the formulation of Hilbert spaces and the foundations of functional analysis. His work on the invariant theory which paved the way to proving the renowned finiteness theorem and his Hilbert’s Basis Theorem is proof that he deserved those awards. Some more proof is that the German Mathematical Society honored his work concerning the algebraic number theory as well as the fact that his work in the he did in the geometry area is thought to be the most influential after Euclid. He deserved the awards he got and he is perfectly aligned with my view of

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