mathematician David Hilbert

The consequences of his decision continue to reverberate in math and physics today. Here's the error. General relativity was ... By late 1915 he knew that the influential German mathematician David Hilbert was close to finalizing a theory of general relativity himself. In a few feverish weeks in November ...

It is a paradox made famous by the German mathematician David Hilbert (see the video below) who, in a lecture delivered in 1924, envisaged a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Even when the hotel is full, he pointed out, it can still accommodate new guests if every guest vacates their room and ...

... has so far led to the resignation of the two editors-in-chief of a respected math journal, statements of regret from journal's editorial board, angry social media ... his work provides solutions to at least two of the famously intractable problems put forward by German mathematician David Hilbert (1862-1943).

Sergeyev also says his theory provides a solution to two famous problems about infinite numbers from renowned mathematician David Hilbert. But some mathematicians argue that Sergeyev's theory has no scientific value, and have been highly critical of the paper, published online on November 13 ...

The model they conceived was, first, based on formal concepts and rules — linguistic, logical or mathematical — similar to mathematician David Hilbert's attempt to unify and formalize his field through axioms. But any such models had to be backed up by empirical evidence and be given empirical meaning.

In 1900, the German mathematician David Hilbert made a list of 23 of the most important problems in mathematics. He put the continuum ... In the 1960s, the mathematician Paul Cohen explained why. Cohen developed a ... Cohen's work won him the Fields Medal (one of math's highest honors) in 1966.

Over the next 80 minutes he walked students through a proof of a theorem by the German mathematician David Hilbert that stands as one of the most important breakthroughs in 20th-century mathematics. Commutative algebra is taught at the undergraduate level at only a few universities, but it is offered ...

David Hilbert, a German mathematician who was a friend and admirer of Einstein, takes it upon himself to figure out the mathematical equations for Einstein's ... informally titled the "Entwurf" ("Draft," in German), Einstein races to tackle some complicated math before his new competition can steal the credit.

David Hilbert was extremely absent-minded, extraordinarily brilliant and the most influential mathematician of the twentieth century. ... paper trail, including a nineteenth-century letter published in Nature, and eventually succeeded (J. Barrow-Green and R. Siegmund-Schultze Hist. Math. 43, 415–426; 2016).

By 1915, any list of the world's greatest living mathematicians included the name David Hilbert. And though Hilbert previously devoted his ... Her father, Max, was a fairly prominent mathematician, and one of her brothers eventually attained a doctorate in math. In retrospect, perhaps the Noethers may be ...