Subject: Re: [HM] Leopold Kronecker
From: Martin Davis (martin@eipye.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 14:37:54 EST
Dear Julio,
With great apologies I am replying today to a message you sent me on
December 20 in which you wrote:
> By the way, is there any basis for your statement "Kronecker was in
> fact a Christian"? If I remember things correctly, E.T. Bell asserted
> that Leopold Kronecker (1823--1823+68) converted to Christianity from
> Judaism when he was 68 years old.
I believe I was simply mistaken in that impression. In a list of "Dozenten"
in mathemtics at the university of Berlin on the Web, one finds:
Kronecker, Leopold. Lesendes Akademiemitglied 1861, ao.Prof. 11.5.1883 fu"r
Mathematik.
*7.12.1823 Liegnitz, +29.12.1891 Berlin. - L.:ADB 51,393. - S.:R.Kronecker,
Werke 5, 517. - B.:Ju"disches Lexikon 1927 ff. 3.913.
That reference to the Ju"disches Lexikon as a biographical source would seem
to make it plain that the authors of that work counted him as Jewish.
With best wishes from Berkeley (sunny again in our rainy season),
Martin
Martin Davis
Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley
Professor Emeritus, NYU
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