Mathematician:Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein

Mathematician

German mathematician best known for his work in number theory.

Student of Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Died tragically young of tuberculosis.

Nationality

Prussian

History

• Born: 16 April 1823 in Berlin, Germany
• Died: 11 Oct 1852 in Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Eisenstein's Conjecture
• Eisenstein's Criterion, also known as the Schönemann-Eisenstein Theorem (independently of Theodor Schönemann)
• Eisenstein Ideal
• Eisenstein Integer (also known as Eulerian Integer for Leonhard Paul Euler, or Eisenstein-Jacobi Integer (with Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi)

• Eisenstein Prime
• Eisenstein Series
• Eisenstein's Lemma
• Eisenstein's Theorem

Results named for Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein can be found here.

Publications

• 1844: Geometrischer Beweis des Fundamentaltheorems für die quadratischen Reste (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 28: pp. 246 – 248)
• 1847: Beiträge zur Theorie der elliptischen Funktionen (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 35: pp. 137 – 184)
• 1850: Über die Irredicibilität une einige andere Eigenschaften der Gleichung von welche der Theilung der ganzen Lemniscate abhängt (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 39: pp. 160 – 179)
• 1852: Über eine allgemeine Eigenschaft der Reihen-Entwicklungen aller algebraischen Functionen

Also known as

Known both as Gotthold Eisenstein and Ferdinand Eisenstein.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Eisenstein, Ferdinand Gotthold Max (1823-52)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Eisenstein, Ferdinand Gotthold Max (1823-52)