Poster 4
Poster 4
Poster 4
Biography
Riemann was born on 17 September 1826 in Breselenz, a village near Dannenberg
in the Kingdom of Hanover. His father, Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, was a poor
Lutheran pastor in Breselenz who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. His mother,
Charlotte Ebell, died before her children had reached adulthood. Riemann was
the second of six children, shy and suffering from numerous nervous breakdowns.
Riemann exhibited exceptional mathematical skills, such as calculation abilities,
from an early age but suffered from timidity and a fear of speaking in public. Georg Friedrich
Bernhard Riemann
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