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Born
23 January 1862
Wehlau, near Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Died
14 February 1943
Göttingen, Germany
Summary
Hilbert's work in geometry had the greatest influence in that area after Euclid.

A systematic study of the axioms of Euclidean geometry led Hilbert to propose 21 such axioms and he analysed their significance.

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    • He made contributions in many areas of mathematics and physics.

    Biography

    David Hilbert's father, Otto Hilbert, was the son of a judge who was a high ranking Privy Councillor. Otto was a county judge who had married Maria Therese Erdtmann, the daughter of Karl Erdtmann, a Königsberg merchant.

    Maria was fascinated by philosophy, astronomy and prime numbers. Otto Hilbert had a brother who was a lawyer and another who was the director of a Gymnasium. After Otto was promoted to become a senior judge, he and Maria moved to 13 Kirchenstrasse in Königsberg and this was the home in which David spent much of his childhood.