Kroneckerian

English

Etymology

Kronecker +‎ -ian

Adjective

Kroneckerian (comparative more Kroneckerian, superlative most Kroneckerian)

  1. Of or relating to Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891), German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic.

Noun

Kroneckerian (plural Kroneckerians)

  1. An adherent to the ideas of Leopold Kronecker.
    • 2009, Bart Van Kerkhove, New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices: Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 166:
      Considered just locally, the two approaches are very hard to compare, if not incommensurable, since they differ so much in their respective background assumptions (thus the continuing disagreement between Dedekindians and Kroneckerians).
    • 2020 June 16, Joseph Warren Dauben, Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 253:
      Among the most virulent and persistant of the twentieth-century Kroneckerians were the French.
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