Moritz Pasch
Moritz Pasch · Science & Medicine
Foundations of geometry; Pasch's axiom
1843, Breslau, Prussia (present-day Wrocław, Poland) — 1930, Bad Homburg, Germany
Germany
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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
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
