MATHEMATICIAN

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Alexander Pick has received more than 64,749 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Georg Alexander Pick is the 300th most popular mathematician (up from 308th in 2019), the 437th most popular biography from Austria (up from 457th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 300 out of 1,004. Before him are Yi Xing, Liu Xin, Vergilius of Salzburg, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Kiyosi Itô, and Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow. After him are Giambattista Benedetti, Alan Baker, Jakow Trachtenberg, Vitello, Eutocius of Ascalon, and Eugène Charles Catalan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 46. Before him are Jānis Čakste, Ravachol, Thibaw Min, Feng Guozhang, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Léon Duguit. After him are Gustave Kahn, Alfred Hettner, Nahum Sokolow, Walther von Lüttwitz, Sen Katayama, and Kenneth Grahame. Among people deceased in 1942, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 75. Before him are Valdemar Poulsen, John Barrymore, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Miguel Hernández, Mikhail Nesterov, and Erwin Schulhoff. After him are Julio González, Leonid Kulik, Alfred Flatow, Georges Politzer, Cesare Mori, and Atsushi Nakajima.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 437 out of 1,424. Before him are Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw (1590), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Hans Gross (1847), Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), and Marisa Mell (1939). After him are Kurt Diemberger (1932), Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796), Anna Mahler (1904), Eva Schloss (1929), Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), and Carlo Abarth (1908).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 6. Before him are Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Josef Stefan (1835), Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Hans Hahn (1879), and Emil Artin (1898). After him are Karl Menger (1902), Philipp Frank (1884), Hermann Bondi (1919), Simon von Stampfer (1790), Friedrich Waismann (1896), and Hilda Geiringer (1893).

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