biography
pronunciation:
[noygebower]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1990)
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| biography:
| Mathematical historian, astronomer, and editor, born in Innsbruck, Austria. He was director of the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen (1929–32), where he researched and established modern understanding of Babylonian mathematics, and founded the review journal Zentralblatt für Matematik. Fleeing Nazism, he went first to Copenhagen (1934–8) and then to the USA (1939) to teach at Brown University, where he became known as a devoted teacher, mathematical and astronomical historian, and founder of Mathematical Reviews. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was an intensely private man. |
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