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Rudolf Lipschitz

Rudolf Lipschitz

1832 CE–1903 CE · Königsberg

Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (14 May 1832 – 7 October 1903) was a German mathematician who made contributions to mathematical analysis (where he gave his name to the Lipschitz continuity condition) and differential geometry, as well as number theory, algebras with involution and classical mechanics.

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KönigsbergקעניגסבערגEast Prussia

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About Königsberg

Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, Russia), then the capital of East Prussia, had a Jewish community of note and was an important center of Hebrew printing in the modern era. Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, spent his final years working to strengthen Orthodox Jewish life in Germany and Prussia and died in Königsberg in 1883.

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Influenced byPeter Gustav Lejeune DirichletRudolf LipschitzShapedFelix Klein