David Hilbert, one of the most significant mathematicians of the 20th century comes from K\u00F6nigsberg (Kaliningrad), where he also finishes his studies in 1884. In 1895, he is called to a chair at G\u00F6ttingen University as professor of mathematics, where he remains teaching until retiring in 1930.
Hilbert changes the focal point of his research activities many times during his career, providing many new impulses for mathematics in countless branches, including the theory of invariants, algebraic number theory, geometry, the theory of integral equations or basic questions of logic about the basic principles of mathematics.
At a congress in 1900, he presents a vision for mathematics in the 20th century, putting forth 23 unsolved problems fundamental to mathematics, as well as anticipating the challenges an axiomatization of physics represents. Hilbert attempts such an axiomatization of physics\u2019 basic principles in 1915, using the works of Gustav Mies on electrodynamics and Einstein\u2019s theory of gravitation.
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