Kronecker
Speech parts
1. Kronecker - Noun
2. Kronecker - Proper noun
Meaning
German mathematician (1823-1891)
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At the same time, there was growing opposition to Cantor's ideas, led by Kronecker, who admitted mathematical concepts only if they could be constructed in a finite number of steps from the natural numbers, which he took as intuitively given.
Criticism of his work weighed on his mind: every one of the fifty-two letters he wrote to Mittag-Leffler in 1884 mentioned Kronecker.
Indeed, Hilbert would lose his "gifted pupil" Weyl to intuitionism — "Hilbert was disturbed by his former student's fascination with the ideas of Brouwer, which aroused in Hilbert the memory of Kronecker".
Construction similar to the Kronecker Product There is a method reminiscent of the Kronecker product of two matrices, that builds an nm × nm magic square from an n × n magic square and an m × m magic square.
By taking Kronecker products of this representation with itself repeatedly, one may construct all higher irreducible representations.
For instance the Strassen algorithm may be used for polynomial multiplication citation Alternatively the Kronecker substitution technique may be used to convert the problem of multiplying polynomials into a single binary multiplication. citation.