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studying philology and Christian theology in order to become a eine allgemeine
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During the spring of 1846, his father, after gathering enough
money, sent Riemann to the University of Göttingen, where he veränderlichen
planned to study towards a degree in theology. However, once complexen
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(specifically his lectures on the method of least squares). Gauss w.maths.tcd.ie/pu
recommended that Riemann give up his theological work and b/HistMath/Peopl
enter the mathematical field; after getting his father's approval, e/Riemann/Grun
Riemann transferred to the University of Berlin in 1847.[5] During d/Grund.pd
his time of study, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Peter Gustav Lejeune f) (1851)
Dirichlet, Jakob Steiner, and Gotthold Eisenstein were teaching.
He stayed in Berlin for two years and returned to Göttingen in Doctoral Carl Friedrich
1849. advisor Gauss
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Moritz A. Stern
Riemann held his first lectures in 1854, which founded the field of Carl W. B.
Riemannian geometry and thereby set the stage for Albert Goldschmidt
Einstein's general theory of relativity.[6] In 1857, there was an
attempt to promote Riemann to extraordinary professor status at Notable Gustav Roch
the University of Göttingen. Although this attempt failed, it did students Eduard Selling
result in Riemann finally being granted a regular salary. In 1859, Influences J. P. G. L.
following the death of Dirichlet (who held Gauss's chair at the Dirichlet
University of Göttingen), he was promoted to head the
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mathematics department at the University of Göttingen. He was
also the first to suggest using dimensions higher than merely
three or four in order to describe physical reality.[7][6]

In 1862 he married Elise Koch and they had a daughter Ida Schilling who was born on 22 December
1862.[8]

Protestant family and death in Italy

Riemann fled Göttingen when the armies of Hanover and Prussia clashed there in 1866.[9] He died of
tuberculosis during his third journey to Italy in Selasca (now a hamlet of Verbania on Lake Maggiore)
where he was buried in the cemetery in Biganzolo (Verbania).

Riemann was a dedicated Christian, the son of a Protestant minister, and saw his life as a
mathematician as another way to serve God. During his life, he held closely to his Christian faith and
considered it to be the most important aspect of his life. At the time of his death, he was reciting the
Lord's Prayer with his wife and died before they finished saying the prayer.[10] Meanwhile, in
Göttingen his housekeeper discarded some of the papers in his office, including much unpublished
work. Riemann refused to publish incomplete work, and some deep insights may have been lost
forever.[9]