Definition of Riemann

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

Exact synonyms: Bernhard Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Generic synonyms: Mathematician
Derivative terms: Riemannian

Definition of Riemann

1. Adjective. (mathematics) Pertaining to the mathematician Bernhard Riemann. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Riemann

Ridgewood
Ridley
Ridley's circle
Ridley's sinus
Riedel's disease
Riedel's lobe
Riedel's struma
Riedel's thyroiditis
Rieder's lymphocyte
Rieder cell leukaemia
Rieder cells
Riegel's pulse
Rieger's anomaly
Riehl's melanosis
Riemann (current term)
Riemann space
Riemann spaces
Riemann surface
Riemann zeta-function
Riemann zeta function
Riemannian
Riemannian geometry
Riemannian manifold
Rieske protein
Riesling
Rieslings
Riesman
Rieti
Rifadin

Literary usage of Riemann

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

1. Functions of a Complex Variable by Edgar Jerome Townsend (1915)
"When these points of the Riemann surface and their corresponding ... When these boundary points constitute a closed curve upon the Riemann surface, ..."

2. Functions of a Complex Variable by Edgar Jerome Townsend (1915)
"When these points of the Riemann surface and their corresponding ... When these boundary points constitute a closed curve upon the Riemann surface, ..."

3. 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. ..."

4. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1903)
"Riemann. The peculiarity of such dependence, as exemplified in the phenomena of the steady flow of heat or of electric distribution, consisted in this, ..."

5. Topics in the Geometric Theory of Linear Systems by Robert Hermann (1984)
"For example, one might postulate that the open set U be identified with an open set of another Riemann surface (not necessarily the Riemann sphere ..."

6. 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 mathematical investigation given by Riemann has been examined by Clausius ..."

7. Abel's Theorem and the Allied Theory: Including the Theory of the Theta by Henry Frederick Baker (1897)
"But the sense in which we speak of a place of a Riemann surface must be explained. ... note. t Such a point is called by Riemann "ein sich ..."

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