Georg Alexander Pick

Georg Alexander Pick ( born August 10, 1859 in Vienna, † July 26, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian mathematician.

Life

Pick doctorate in 1880 at Leo Konigsberg at the University of Vienna with a thesis about a class of Abelian integrals and habilitated in 1881 at the Karl- Ferdinand University in Prague with the work about the integration of hyperelliptic differentials by logarithms. In 1888 he was appointed first as an associate, full professor there in 1892. Picks main areas of work were the function theory, differential equations and differential geometry, his name is connected with the Pick- Nevanlinna interpolation, the lemma of Schwarz -Pick and Pick's theorem. Pick remained until his retirement in 1927 in Prague and then returned to his hometown of Vienna. After the German invasion in the context of the terminal in 1938, he moved again to Prague, where he dodged a Jew from persecution by the Nazis. From Prague he was deported on 13 July 1942 by the Nazis in the concentration camp Theresienstadt, where he spent two weeks later, on July 26, 1942, died.