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Stefan or Stephan Cohn-Vossen (28 May 1902 – 25 June 1936) was a mathematician, now best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book ''Anschauliche Geometrie'', translated into English as ''Geometry and the Imagination''.〔 〕 The Cohn-Vossen transformation is also named for him. He was born in Breslau (then a city in the German Empire; now Wrocław in Poland). He wrote a 1924 doctoral dissertation at the University of Breslau (now the University of Wrocław) under the supervision of Adolf Kneser. He became a professor at the University of Cologne in 1930. He was barred from lecturing in 1933 under Nazi racial legislation, because he was Jewish.〔.〕 In 1934 he emigrated to the USSR, with some help from Herman Müntz.〔 (p.133) quotes from a 1937 letter by Müntz: "The appointments of Cohn-Vossen, Walfisz, Pollaczek (the latter was not allowed to slip in again) were immediately influenced by myself, the ones for Plessner and Bergmann indirectly."〕 While there, he taught at Leningrad University. He died in Moscow from pneumonia.〔(Cohn-Vossen's Obituary ) (in Russian)〕 == See also == * Cohn-Vossen's inequality 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephan Cohn-Vossen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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