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Definition of Riemann

1. Noun. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).

Definition of Riemann

1. Adjective. (mathematics) Pertaining to the mathematician Bernhard Riemann. ¹

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Literary usage of Riemann

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Functions of a Complex Variable by Edgar Jerome Townsend (1915)
"When these points of the Riemann surface and their corresponding ... When these boundary points constitute a closed curve upon the Riemann surface, ..."

2. Functions of a Complex Variable by Edgar Jerome Townsend (1915)
"When these points of the Riemann surface and their corresponding ... When these boundary points constitute a closed curve upon the Riemann surface, ..."

3. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Felix Klein, Robert Hermann (1979)
"BERNHARD Riemann First, Riemann's works. They were posthumously edited by H. Weber; a first edition appeared in 1876, a second in 1892. ..."

4. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1903)
"Riemann. The peculiarity of such dependence, as exemplified in the phenomena of the steady flow of heat or of electric distribution, consisted in this, ..."

5. Topics in the Geometric Theory of Linear Systems by Robert Hermann (1984)
"For example, one might postulate that the open set U be identified with an open set of another Riemann surface (not necessarily the Riemann sphere ..."

6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"237-263, in 1867, after the death of the author, Bernhard Riemann deduces ... The mathematical investigation given by Riemann has been examined by Clausius ..."

7. Abel's Theorem and the Allied Theory: Including the Theory of the Theta by Henry Frederick Baker (1897)
"But the sense in which we speak of a place of a Riemann surface must be explained. ... note. t Such a point is called by Riemann "ein sich ..."

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