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Dehn, Max, 1878-1952

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Personal name headingDehn, Max, 1878-1952
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Variant(s)Dehn, M. (Max), 1878-1952
Birth date1878-11-13
Death date1952-06-26
Special noteIncludes the old catalog heading: Dehn, Max, 1878-
Found inHis Papers on group theory and topology, c1987: CIP t.p. (Max Dehn)
LC data base, 12/23/86 (hdg.: Dehn, Max, 1878-1952)
LCCN 31-13208: Schoenflies, A. Einführung in die analytische geometrie der ebene und des raumes, 1931 (hdg.: Dehn, Max, 1878- ; usage: M. Dehn)
Max Dehn, 2024: CIP galley (first mathematician to solve one of Hilbert's famous problems (the third); scholar and teacher; lived in Frankfurt; fled to Scandinavia in 1938, and then the United States and Black Mountain College; born Hamburg, Germany, 13 November 1878; Jewish; entered Göttingen University in the summer of 1897; in November 1899 he passed his doctoral examination and took his degree summa cum laude; worked a private lecturer (Privatdozent) in Münster; in 1913 appointed a full professor at the Technical University in Breslau; became head of the mathematics program in Frankfurt in 1921; sent his children to England and the United States around 1933; mathematics, philosophy, Greek, and Italian at BMC from 1945-1952; died June 26, 1952)
Associated languageger eng