Ernst Kummer

Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 in Sorau, Brandenburg, Prussia - 14 May 1893 in Berlin, Germany) was a German mathematician. Highly skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a Gymnasium (the German equivalent of high school), where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker. He retired from teaching and from mathematics in 1890.

References

• Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986.