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Bernhard Riemann

died 158 years ago

20 July 1866

Bernhard Riemann's ideas concerning geometry of space had a profound effect on the development of modern theoretical physics. He clarified the notion of integral by defining what we now call the Riemann integral.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Riemann/