Emanuel Lodewijk Elte
Emanuel Lodewijk Elte (born March 16, 1881 in Amsterdam , † April 9, 1943 in Sobibor ) was a Dutch mathematician .
His father was a school principal in Amsterdam and Elte was also a school teacher in Amsterdam (mathematics, physics). In 1912 he married. He later lived in Haarlem . After a German officer was shot dead on a street in Haarlem on January 30, 1943, in retaliation a hundred Haarlem residents were taken to the Vught concentration camp, including Elte and his family (his wife Rebecca and two children). From there he was taken to Westerbork and from there to the Sobibor extermination camp , where he and his wife were murdered. His children died in Auschwitz.
In 1912 he classified semiregular polytopes in n dimensions, like Thorold Gosset in England in 1900, with a somewhat more restricted approach . His results were also found by HSM Coxeter .
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- The semiregular polytopes of hyperspaces, Groningen 1912
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elte, Emanuel Lodewijk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1943 |
| Place of death | Sobibor |