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{{cquote|During his life, [Riemann] held closely to his Christian [[faith]] and considered it to be the most important aspect of his life. At the time of his death, he was reciting the Lord’s Prayer with his wife and passed away before they finished saying the prayer.}}

{{cquote|During his life, [Riemann] held closely to his Christian [[faith]] and considered it to be the most important aspect of his life. At the time of his death, he was reciting the Lord’s Prayer with his wife and passed away before they finished saying the prayer.}}

Riemann was born into an impoverished family in [[Germany]], a devoutly [[Christian]] son of a [[Lutheran]] pastor.  He was schooled at home by his father, and was sent to attend a prominent school (Johanneum at Luneburg) at the age of 16.  Riemann quickly became bored with the math class and asked the director for more advanced material.  The director gave him most advanced math books (including [[Leonhard Euler]]'s works and Adrien Marie Legendre's Theory of Numbers).  Riemann mastered them in merely a few days.<ref>http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/199899/bioriema.htm</ref>

Riemann was born into an impoverished family in [[Germany]], a devoutly [[Christian]] son of a [[Lutheran]] pastor.  He was [[homeschooling|homeschooled]] by his father, and was sent to attend a prominent school (Johanneum at Luneburg) at the age of 16.  Riemann quickly became bored with the math class and asked the director for more advanced material.  The director gave him most advanced math books (including [[Leonhard Euler]]'s works and Adrien Marie Legendre's Theory of Numbers).  Riemann mastered them in merely a few days.<ref>http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/199899/bioriema.htm</ref>

Riemann created a new type of geometry that became useful in the next century, and his [[Riemann hypothesis]] remains the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics today.  It concerns the distribution of prime numbers and was first proposed in Riemann's class paper ''On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude'' (1859).<ref>http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/199899/bioriema.htm</ref>

Riemann created a new type of geometry that became useful in the next century, and his [[Riemann hypothesis]] remains the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics today.  It concerns the distribution of prime numbers and was first proposed in Riemann's class paper ''On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude'' (1859).<ref>http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/199899/bioriema.htm</ref>