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Georg Alexander Pick | |
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 Georg Pick, 1885 | |
| Born | 10 August 1859 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 26 July 1942 (aged 82) Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Known for | Pick's formula Schwarz–Pick lemma Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theorem Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Charles University in Prague |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Königsberger |
| Doctoral students | Charles Loewner Saly Ruth Ramler |
Georg Alexander Pick (10 August 1859 – 26 July 1942) was an Austrian Jewish mathematician who was murdered during The Holocaust. He was born in Vienna to Josefa Schleisinger and Adolf Josef Pick and died at Theresienstadt concentration camp.[1] Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. He published it in an article in 1899; it was popularized when Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus included it in the 1969 edition of Mathematical Snapshots.