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Alfred Pringsheim

Who

Alfred Pringsheim · Science & Medicine

What

Analysis; theory of infinite series and continued fractions

When

1850, Ohlau, Prussia (now Oława, Poland) — 1941, Zürich, Switzerland

Where

Germany · Switzerland

Biography

Alfred Pringsheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Analysis; theory of infinite series and continued fractions

How & why

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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Analysis; theory of infinite series and continued fractions

1850

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics