biography
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| (1897–1965)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in New York City, New York, USA. He taught at a number of American universities, including Columbia (1920–6), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1930–6), and New York City College (1955–65). Concentrating largely on geometry, his specialty was the problem of Plateau, and he wrote over 50 papers on geometry and group theory. |
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