Julius König
Born: 1849 in Györ, Hungary
Died: 1913 in Budapest, Hungary
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Julius König studied at Vienna and Heidelberg. His doctorate was from Heidelberg in 1870. He became a lecturer in Budapest in 1872, becoming professor at the Technical University of Budapest in 1873.
In Heidelberg König was influenced by Helmholtz who suggested research topics. However he ended up working with Leo Königsberger on elliptic functions.
His work in Hungary was on algebra and analysis. His most important work in 1903 is based on a fundamental study by Kronecker published in 1892. König developed Kronecker's polynomial ideals and presented many results on discriminants of forms, elimination theory and Diophantine problems.
König's work on polynomial ideals influenced Hilbert, Lasker, Macaulay, Emmy Noether, van der Waerden and Gröbner but they simplified his ideas so König's work is now only of historical interest.
In the last eight years of his life König's interests turned towards set theory and he contributed to the continuum hypothesis. In 1904 he announced that the continuum hypothesis was false but Zermelo found the error in the proof. He spent the last part of his life working on his own approach to set theory, which was published in 1914, the year after his death.
Texto original por: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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