Mathematician:Ernst Eduard Kummer

Mathematician
German mathematician mostly active in the field of applied mathematics.

Also worked in abstract algebra and field theory.

Proved that Fermat's Last Theorem holds for all exponents $p$ such that $p$ is a regular prime.

Related by marriage to.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 29 Jan 1810, Sorau, Brandenburg, Prussia (now Germany)
 * Died: 14 May 1893, Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kummer's Confluent Hypergeometric Function
 * Kummer Extension
 * Kummer's Function
 * Kummer Ring
 * Kummer Series
 * Kummer Surface
 * Kummer Theory


 * Kummer's Equation
 * Kummer Sum
 * Kummer's Theorem
 * Kummer's Hypergeometric Theorem