Mathematicians in Berlin
The atlas holds 4 people and 9 moments here, from 1698 to 1914. The most recorded lives are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonhard Euler and Albert Einstein.
Notable people
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
from 1698 to 1711
5 moments here
German polymath, philosopher, mathematician, jurist, diplomat, court councillor, historian, and librarian.…
Leonhard Euler
from 1741 to 1753
2 moments here
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, and polymath. Euler’s documented life moved from Basel and nearby Riehen to Saint Petersburg,…
Albert Einstein
in 1914
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1828
1 moment here
German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist. Gauss was born in Brunswick, studied there and at Göttingen, worked privately in…
Moments
- 1698 Extended periods in Berlin Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1702 Residence at Lützenburg and Berlin Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1704 Arrival at Lützenburg Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1706 Berlin residence Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1711 Final Berlin sojourn Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1741 Arrival in Berlin Leonhard Euler
- 1753 Family home in Charlottenburg Leonhard Euler
- 1828 Berlin scientific congress Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1914 Moves to Dahlem apartment Albert Einstein