Mathematician and professor born and died in Berlin, admired by Gauss, with an important contribution to studies with prime numbers, despite his brief existence. Son of German Jews Johan Konstantin Eisenstein and Helene Pollack, but who exchanged Judaism for Protestantism. In fragile health he went to study at the Cauer Academy in Charlottenburg (1833), a district of Berlin, and then entered the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium (1837), in Berlin, where he began to demonstrate his talent for mathematics, dedicating himself to studying the differential and integral calculus of Euler and Lagrand. He went on to study with Dirichlet and other mathematicians at the University of Berlin. He finished his higher education (1842) and traveled with his mother to England to meet his father, who had previously traveled there in search of better living conditions.
In Dublin he met Hamilton who handed him a copy of a paper by Abel on the impossibility of solving fivefold equations. He returned to Germany (1843) where he was supervised by Schellbach at the University of Berlin (1843-1844). Supported by Alexander von Humboldt he published 23 papers and two problems in the Journal de Crelle (1844). He traveled to Göttingen where he met Gauss and befriended Moritz Stern and obtained through Kummer the degree of honorary doctorate from the University of Breslaw (1845). He worked on elliptical functions (1846-1847) in an unfriendly dispute with Jacobi. He became a lecturer (1847) at the University of Berlin. Despite the country's enormous internal political problems and his own health problems, Gauss proposed his name to the Göttingen Academy and he was elected (1851). The following year (1852), at the request of Dirichlet, he was elected to the Berlin Academy. Unfortunately, a victim of tuberculosis, he died that same year at just 29 years of age.
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