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Science & Medicine

Georg Pick

Who

Georg Pick · Science & Medicine

What

Geometry; Pick's theorem on lattice polygon areas

When

1859, Vienna, Austria — 1942, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Bohemia

Where

Austria · Bohemia (Czech lands)

Biography

Georg Pick is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geometry; Pick's theorem on lattice polygon areas

How & why

Georg Alexander Pick was an Austrian mathematician best known for Pick's theorem, a strikingly simple formula giving the area of a lattice polygon from its boundary and interior lattice points. He worked in Prague and, as a mentor there, helped bring Einstein into contact with the geometry underlying general relativity. Jewish, he was deported and died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Geometry; Pick's theorem on lattice polygon areas

1859

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics