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Georg Alexander Pick

Georg Alexander Pick
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Georg Alexander Pick 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.

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  1. Aleksandr PopovMarch 4, 1859 – December 31, 1905
  2. Ernesto CesaroMarch 12, 1859 – September 12, 1906
  3. Florian CajoriFebruary 28, 1859 – August 14, 1930
  4. Georg Alexander Pick (this page)August 10, 1859 – July 26, 1942
  5. Johan JensenMay 8, 1859 – March 5, 1925
  6. Pierre CurieMay 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906

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