Ernst Eduard Kummer (1810 - 1893)

* 29 January 1810, † 14 May 1893

Ernst Eduard Kummer was born on 29 January 1810 in Sorau, Brandenburg, Prussia (now Germany). Eduard Kummer’s main achievement was the extension of results about the integers to other integral domains by introducing the concept of an ideal. Ernst Eduard Kummer died on 14 May 1893 in Berlin, Germany.