When is Bernhard Riemann's birthday?

Bernhard Riemann's birthday is September 17. He was born on September 17, 1826 in Breselenz, Germany.

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Science · 1826–1866

Bernhard Riemann — Age & Birthday

Born: 17 September 1826 · Died: 20 July 1866 · Age at death: 39

How old was Bernhard Riemann when he died?

Bernhard Riemann died aged 39. He was born on 17 September 1826 and died on 20 July 1866.

German mathematician whose geometry of curved spaces underpins Einstein's relativity and who posed the Riemann hypothesis

Did you know?His theories on the curvature of space provided the essential mathematical foundation for Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

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Date of birth17 September 1826
Date of death20 July 1866
Age at death39
Cause of deathTuberculosis
NationalityGerman
BirthplaceBreselenz, Germany
Occupationmathematician, physicist, university teacher

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Bernhard Riemann changed mathematics in a short life. The shy son of a Lutheran pastor, he studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss at Göttingen. In 1854 he gave a lecture on the foundations of geometry that imagined curved spaces of any dimension. Decades later, Einstein used this "Riemannian geometry" for general relativity. In 1859 he wrote a short paper on prime numbers. In it he made a guess, the Riemann hypothesis, that remains unproved and carries a $1 million prize. He died of tuberculosis at 39.

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (German:; 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

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Bernhard Riemann: The Riemann Hypothesis

German mathematician, 1826–1866

Bernhard Riemann was born in Breselenz on 17 September 1826.

He studied under Gauss at Göttingen.

He gave his lecture on geometry in 1854.

He proposed the Riemann hypothesis in 1859.

Career highlights

1851Doctorate: Göttingen
1854Geometry: lecture
1857Professor: Göttingen
1859Hypothesis: zeta function
1866Death: in Italy

Did you know?Proving his hypothesis carries a $1 million prize.

Age at death: 39
Years since death: 160

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Father: Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Mother: Charlotte Ebell
Spouse: Elise Koch
Child: Ida Riemann

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