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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Alexander Pick has received more than 59,009 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Georg Alexander Pick is the 308th most popular mathematician (down from 265th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Austria (down from 389th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 308 out of 823Before him are Rudolf E. Kálmán, Theon of Smyrna, Enrico Bombieri, Wilhelm Ackermann, John Edensor Littlewood, and Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam. After him are Paul Cohen, Giambattista Benedetti, Lev Pontryagin, Oronce Finé, Edmund Landau, and Shing-Tung Yau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 49Before him are Alfred Hettner, Feng Guozhang, Adolf Hurwitz, Thibaw Min, Léon Duguit, and Karl von Stürgkh. After him are Sergei Lyapunov, Charles Diehl, Belle Gunness, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Ernesto Cesàro, and Radko Dimitriev. Among people deceased in 1942, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 83Before him are Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Georges Politzer, Henk Sneevliet, Avraham Stern, Atsushi Nakajima, and Cesare Mori. After him are Karel Doorman, Walter Sickert, Leonid Kulik, A. E. Waite, Vera Figner, and Harro Schulze-Boysen.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 459 out of 1,237Before him are Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), Martin Weinek (1964), Joy Adamson (1910), Josyf Slipyj (1892), Joseph Anton Koch (1768), and Freddy Quinn (1931). After him are Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532), Moritz von Schwind (1804), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Hermann Gmeiner (1919), Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria (1827), and Petar Brzica (1917).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Georg Alexander Pick ranks 7Before him are Kurt Gödel (1906), Josef Stefan (1835), Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Emil Artin (1898), and Hans Hahn (1879). After him are Karl Menger (1902), Philipp Frank (1884), Hermann Bondi (1919), Simon von Stampfer (1790), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), and Friedrich Waismann (1896).