Bernhard Riemann
Bernhard Riemann was a 19th-century German mathematician known for the Riemann hypothesis and Riemannian geometry.
Bernhard Riemann (1826 to 1866) was a German mathematician who studied and taught at the University of Göttingen. He made major contributions to analysis, geometry and number theory, and the Riemann integral, Riemann surfaces and Riemannian geometry bear his name.
In an 1859 paper on the distribution of prime numbers, he conjectured that all nontrivial zeros of the zeta function lie on the line with real part 1/2. This Riemann hypothesis remains unproven and is one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems.
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