# David Hilbert

> He handed the 20th century its mathematical to-do list. In 1900, Hilbert posed a set of problems that steered entire fields for decades - some solved, some still open, all seeded from a single mind that redrew the borders of rigor itself.

*German mathematician (1862-1943)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/david-hilbert

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1862-01-23
- **Died:** 1943-02-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Prussia on 23 January 1862, Hilbert cut through invariant theory, algebraic number theory, and the foundations of geometry before he was forty. He defended Cantor's set theory when it was still suspect and co-founded proof theory, turning the question "what can we prove?" into a discipline. In 1900 he stood before the International Congress and delivered his collection of problems - a blueprint that occupied mathematicians for generations. His students and methods shaped modern mathematical physics, planting rigor where intuition had reigned. He died in Göttingen on 14 February 1943, after the world he'd helped build had already moved past him.

## Fame
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- **Historical depth:** 26.2 / 100
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Philosophy, #Physics, #19th Century

## Timeline
- **1943** - Died
- **1942** - Goethe Medal for Art and Science
- **1928** - Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- **1926** - Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- **1910** - Bolyai Prize
- **1907** - Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- **1906** - Cothenius Medal
- **1903** - Poncelet Prize
- **1903** - Lobachevsky Prize
- **1862** - Born

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