DAVID HILBERT

(KÖNIGSBERG, EAST PRUSSIA; JANUARY 23, 1862-GÖTTINGEN, GERMANY;

FEBRUARY 14, 1943)
BIOGRAPHY

• He was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential of the 19th
and early 20th centuries. He established his reputation as a great mathematician and
scientist by inventing and / or developing a wide range of ideas, such as the theory of
invariants, the axiomatization of geometry and Hilbert's notion of space, one of the
foundations of functional analysis. Hilbert and his students
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATHEMATICS

• Hilbert's first work on invariant functions led him in 1888 to prove his famous finiteness
theorem
• Hilbert presented a system of axioms, a set of 20 (originally 21) hypotheses proposed in 1899
as the foundation for a modern treatment of Euclidean geometry.
• Hilbert proposed a wide string of 23 unsolved problems at the International Congress of
Mathematicians in Paris in 1900. It is widely recognized that this is the most successful and
deeply considered compilation of open problems ever produced by a single mathematician.