Georg Alexander Pick

✶June 10, 1859

†July 26, 1942

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Georg Alexander Pick 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. 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.

He was described as follows:

"Pick was a bachelor ... uncommonly correct in clothes and attitude."

Austrian mathematician, holocaust victim (1859–1942)

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