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Stephan Cohn-Vossen

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Russian mathematician (1902-1936)

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Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. He is best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book Anschauliche Geometrie, translated into English as Geometry and the Imagination. Both Cohn-Vossen's inequality and the Cohn-Vossen transformation are named after him.

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Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. He is best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book Anschauliche Geometrie, translated into English as Geometry and the Imagination. Both Cohn-Vossen's inequality and the Cohn-Vossen transformation are named after him. He also proved the first version of the splitting theorem.

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Lived 1902 to 1936 · aged 34
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