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Georg Alexander Pick

1859 - 1942

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Georg Alexander Pick (10 August 1859 – 26 July 1942) was an Austrian Jewish mathematician who was murdered during The Holocaust. He was born in Vienna to Josefa Schleisinger and Adolf Josef Pick and died at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. He published it in an article in 1899; it was popularized when Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus included it in the 1969 edition of Mathematical Snapshots. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Alexander Pick is the 325th most popular mathematician (down from 300th in 2019), the 418th most popular biography from Austria (up from 437th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 325 out of 1,004. Before him are Pietro Cataldi, Willem de Sitter, Edward Kasner, Lennart Carleson, Kunihiko Kodaira, and Edward Waring. After him are Emil Artin, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, René-Louis Baire, Eutocius of Ascalon, Wilhelm Ackermann, and Pavel Alexandrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 45. Before him are Natalie of Serbia, Théophile Steinlen, Adolf Hurwitz, Havelock Ellis, Feng Guozhang, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant. After him are Takeda Sōkaku, Ravachol, Sen Katayama, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Radko Dimitriev, and Léon Duguit. Among people deceased in 1942, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 72. Before him are Yosano Akiko, Augustinas Voldemaras, Stjepan Filipović, Heinz Hitler, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and John Barrymore. After him are Wilbur Scoville, Karel Doorman, Miguel Hernández, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Erwin Schulhoff, and Leonid Kulik.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 418 out of 1,424. Before him are Heinz Kohut (1913), Franz Vranitzky (1937), Friedrich von Amerling (1803), Archduchess Adelheid of Austria (1914), Hans Ledwinka (1878), and Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (1628). After him are Archduke Felix of Austria (1916), Georg Ritter von Schönerer (1842), Emil Artin (1898), Josef Krips (1902), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1882), and Richard Neutra (1892).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 5. Before him are Josef Stefan (1835), Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Georg von Peuerbach (1423), and Hans Hahn (1879). After him are Emil Artin (1898), Karl Menger (1902), Hermann Bondi (1919), Philipp Frank (1884), Simon von Stampfer (1790), Hilda Geiringer (1893), and Otto E. Neugebauer (1899).

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