Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (died 1891)

Leopold Kronecker

German mathematician (1823–1891)

Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Heinrich Weber quoted Kronecker as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" .…