Georg Pick (mathematician)
Georg Alexander Pick (born August 10, 1859 in Vienna , † July 26, 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian mathematician .
Life
Pick received his doctorate in 1880 under Leo Königsberger at the University of Vienna with a thesis on a class of Abelian integrals and completed his habilitation in 1881 at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague with the work on the integration of hyperelliptic differentials through logarithms . In 1889 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1888 he was appointed associate professor and then in 1892 full professor. Picks main areas were the function theory , differential equations , and differential geometry , its name is connected to the pick-Nevanlinna interpolation , the lemma of black-and-pick and the set of pick , respectively. Pick stayed in Prague until his retirement in 1927 and then returned to his hometown Vienna. After the invasion of German troops as part of the Anschluss in 1938, he moved to Prague again, where, as a Jew, he avoided persecution by the National Socialists. He was deported from Prague on July 13, 1942 by the National Socialists to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , where he died two weeks later, on July 26, 1942.
Honors
- A memorial stele of the Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) in memory of nine members of the academy who were murdered in the concentration camps of the National Socialists or died from the inhuman and cruel conditions of the camp imprisonment also commemorates Georg Pick.
literature
- A. Dick: Pick Georg Alexander. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 61.
- Rudolf Fritsch : Pick, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 418 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Pick in the catalog of the German National Library
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Georg Pick. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Column from the web site Cut The Knot!
- Member Post by Georg Pick at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 26 January 2017th
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the photo album for Weierstrasse. Commented by Reinhard Bölling , Vieweg, 1994
- ↑ Leopoldina erects a stele in memory of Nazi victims (2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pick, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pick, Georg Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1942 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt concentration camp |