Margarethe Kahn | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 March 1942 (deported to Piaski on this date, and missing since then) Piaski, Poland | (aged 61)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics (algebraic geometry) |
Thesis | Eine allgemeine Methode zur Untersuchung der Gestalten algebraischer Kurven [A general method for the study of the forms of algebraic curves] (1909) |
Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
Other academic advisors | Felix Klein |
Margarethe Kahn[1] (known as Grete Kahn,[2] also Margarete Kahn,[3] born 27 August 1880, missing after deportation to Piaski, Poland on 28 March 1942) was a German mathematician and Holocaust victim.[4] She was among the first women to obtain a doctorate in Germany. Her doctoral work was on the topology of algebraic curves.