number Regular prime Reflection theorem Principalization 25628 Kummer – asteroid named after Ernst Kummer References Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York: 1986. R. W. H. T. Hudson, Kummer's Quartic Surface, Cambridge, [1905] rept. 1990. "Ernst Kummer," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. C. Gillispie, NY: Scribners 1970–90. External links Biography of Ernst Kummer 1810 births 1893 deaths People from Żary 19th-century German mathematicians Number theorists German Lutherans People from the Province of Brandenburg Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni Academic staff of the University of Breslau Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin Mendelssohn family Members of the French Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences