Georg pick biography pdf

Georg Pick was an Austrian mathematician best known for his formula on the area of a polygon in a lattice of points.

He published it in an article in ; it was popularized when Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus included it in the edition of Mathematical Snapshots. Pick studied at the University of Vienna and defended his Ph. After receiving his doctorate he was appointed an assistant to Ernst Mach at the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He became a lecturer there in He took a leave from the university in during which he worked with Felix Klein at the University of Leipzig.

Other than that year, he remained in Prague until his retirement in at which time he returned to Vienna. Pick headed the committee at the then German university of Prague , which appointed Albert Einstein to a chair of mathematical physics in Pick introduced Einstein to the work of Italian mathematicians Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita in the field of absolute differential calculus , which later in helped Einstein to successfully formulate general relativity.

Charles Loewner was one of his students in Prague.

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Pick was elected a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts [ cz ] , but was expelled after Nazis took over Prague. After retiring in , Pick returned to Vienna, the city where he was born. In March the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Pick was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp on 13 July He died there two weeks later.

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