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Definition of Bernhard Riemann

1. Noun. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).

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Literary usage of Bernhard Riemann

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Felix Klein, Robert Hermann (1979)
"Bernhard Riemann First, Riemann's works. They were posthumously edited by H. Weber; a first edition appeared in 1876, a second in 1892. ..."

2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"237-263, in 1867, after the death of the author, Bernhard Riemann deduces the phenomena of the induction of electric currents from a modified form of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"His father Friedrich Bernhard Riemann came from Mecklenburg, had served in the war of freedom, and had finally settled as pastor ..."

4. Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor (1911)
"... and others, and was advanced in the most striking manner by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866). Riemann may have owed to his teacher Dirichlet ..."

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