David Hilbert

The last universal mathematician, whose 23 problems set the agenda of the twentieth century.

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1862 – 1943

Core Principles & Analysis

• His Grundlagen der Geometrie (1899) re-axiomatized Euclid for the modern age.
• The 1900 Paris problem list steered a century of research; several remain open.
• He championed Emmy Noether's habilitation against his own faculty's vote.