Georg Alexander Pick
Georg Alexander Pick | |
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Charles University in Prague | |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Königsberger |
| Doctoral students | Charles Loewner Saly Ruth Ramler |
Georg Alexander Pick (10 August 1859 – 26 July 1942) was an
Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus included it in the 1969 edition of Mathematical Snapshots
.
Pick studied at the
University of Leipzig
. Other than that year, he remained in Prague until his retirement in 1927 at which time he returned to Vienna.
Pick headed the committee at the (then)
absolute differential calculus, which later in 1915 helped Einstein to successfully formulate general relativity
.
Nazis took over Prague
.
After retiring in 1927, Pick returned to Vienna, the city where he was born. After the Anschluss when the Nazis marched into Austria on 12 March 1938, Pick returned to Prague. In March 1939 the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Pick was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp on 13 July 1942. He died there two weeks later.
See also
- Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation
- Pick matrix
- Pick's theorem
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