Alfred Pringsheim
Alfred Pringsheim · Science & Medicine
Analysis; theory of infinite series and continued fractions
1850, Ohlau, Prussia (now Oława, Poland) — 1941, Zürich, Switzerland
Germany · Switzerland
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Pringsheim was a German mathematician noted for work on infinite series and continued fractions, and a prominent patron of Wagner's music. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Silesia, he narrowly escaped Nazi Germany for Zurich in 1939; he was the father-in-law of writer Thomas Mann.
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Analysis; theory of infinite series and continued fractions
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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