DAVID HILBERT

a. PROFILE:
David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician,recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered/developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. He also formulated the theory of Hilbert spaces, one of the foundations of functional analysis.(Wikipedia)

PUBLICATIONS
1. Hilbert, D. (1919-20), Natur und Mathematisches Erkennen: Vorlesungen, gehalten 1919-1920 in Gottingen. Nach der Ausarbeitung von Paul Bernays (Edited and with an English introduction by David E. Rowe), Basel, Birkh\"auser (1992).

2.David Hilbert; Cohn-Vossen, S. (1999). Geometry and Imagination. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-1998-4. - an accessible set of lectures originally for the citizens of Göttingen.

3. David Hilbert (2004). Michael Hallett and Ulrich Majer. ed. David Hilbert's Lectures on the foundations of Mathematics and Physics, 1891–1933. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 3-540-64373-7.