Stephan Cohn-Vossen
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| Born | May 28, 1902 Wrocław |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Moscow Pneumonia |
| Alma mater | Wrocław University |
| Thesis | Singuläre Punkte reeller, schlichter Kurvenscharen, deren Differentialgleichung gegeben ist (1924) |
| Doctoral advisor | Adolf Kneser |
| Known for | Cohn-Vossen's inequality |
Stefan or Stephan Cohn-Vossen (28 May 1902 – 25 June 1936) was a mathematician, now best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book Anschauliche Geometrie, translated into English as Geometry and the Imagination.[1] The Cohn-Vossen transformation is also named for him.[2]
He was born in Breslau (then a city in the German Empire; now Wrocław in Poland). He wrote a 1924 doctoral dissertation at the University of Breslau (now the University of Wrocław) under the supervision of Adolf Kneser.[3] He became a professor at the University of Cologne in 1930.
He was barred from lecturing in 1933 under Nazi racial legislation, because he was Jewish.[4] In 1934 he emigrated to the USSR, with some help from Herman Müntz.[5] While there, he taught at Leningrad University. He died in Moscow from pneumonia.[6]
See also
References
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- ↑ Stephan Cohn-Vossen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ Siegmund-Schultze 2009 (p.133) quotes from a 1937 letter by Müntz: "The appointments of Cohn-Vossen, Walfisz, Pollaczek (the latter was not allowed to slip in again) were immediately influenced by myself, the ones for Plessner and Bergmann indirectly."
- ↑ Cohn-Vossen's Obituary (in Russian)
External links
- Anschauliche Geometrie at Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum
- Cohn-Vossen transformation at Encyclopedia of Mathematics
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