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Austrian mathematician and holocaust victim (1859–1942)

Georg Alexander Pick (10 August 1859 – 26 July 1942) was an Austrian Jewishmathematician 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.

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Education and career

Pick studied at the University of Vienna and defended his Ph.D. in 1880 under Leo Königsberger and Emil Weyr. After receiving his doctorate he was appointed an assistant to Ernst Mach at the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He became a lecturer there in 1881. He took a leave from the university in 1884 during which he worked with Felix Klein at the University of Leipzig.

Other than that year Georg Alexander Pick - Scientific Lib LEBYD