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Moritz Pasch · Science & Medicine

What

Foundations of geometry; Pasch's axiom

When

1843, Breslau, Prussia (present-day Wrocław, Poland) — 1930, Bad Homburg, Germany

Where

Germany

Biography

Moritz Pasch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Foundations of geometry; Pasch's axiom

How & why

Moritz Pasch was a German Jewish mathematician who founded the modern axiomatic study of geometry, identifying assumptions Euclid had left implicit — including Pasch's axiom on the ordering of points. His rigor directly influenced Hilbert's foundations of geometry.

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Foundations of geometry; Pasch's axiom

1843

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics