- Georg Alexander Pick
Georg Alexander Pick (
August 10 ,1859 ,Vienna –July 26 ,1942 ) was anAustria nmathematician , after whomPick's theorem is named. He was born to Josefa Schleisinger and Adolf Josef Pick. He died in the Theresienstadtconcentration camp .Pick in 1911 introduced
Albert Einstein to the work of Italian mathematiciansGregorio Ricci-Curbastro andTullio Levi-Civita in the field ofabsolute differential calculus , which later in 1915 helped Einstein to successfully formulateGeneral relativity .Pick studied at the
University of Vienna and defended his Ph.D. in 1880 underLeo Königsberger .Charles Loewner was one of his students inPrague . Pick was elected a member of theCzech Academy of Sciences and Arts , but was expelled after Nazis took over Prague.After retiring in 1927 Pick returned to Vienna, the city where he was born. When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938 he ran to Prague, but in March 1939 the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Pick was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in July 1942 where he died.
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Schwarz-Pick lemma
*Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theorem External links
* [http://www.cut-the-knot.com/ctk/Pick.shtml Column from the "Cut The Knot!" site]
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