David Hilbert (
January 23,
1862,
Königsberg,
Province of Prussia –
February 14,
1943,
Göttingen,
Germany) was a
German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He invented or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas, in
invariant theory, the
axiomatization of geometry, and with the notion of
Hilbert space, one of the foundations of
functional analysis.
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