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Wilhelm Wirtinger
1945Jan, 15

Wilhelm Wirtinger

Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
Wilhelm Wirtinger (19 July 1865 – 16 January 1945) was an Austrian mathematician, working in complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.

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