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Kummer and Kronecker

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Ernst Eduard Kummer was the senior member of the triumvirate — Kummer, Weierstrass, Kronecker — that dominated mathematics in Berlin, and in Germany, during much of the second half of the 19th Century. He probably is best known today for an incident that never happened.

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Edwards, H.M. (1998). Kummer and Kronecker. In: Begehr, H., Koch, H., Kramer, J., Schappacher, N., Thiele, EJ. (eds) Mathematics in Berlin. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8787-8_8

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