Walther Mayer was an Austrian mathematician, born in Graz, Austria-Hungary. With Leopold Vietoris he is the namesake of the Mayer-Vietoris sequence in topology.
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Walther Mayer was an Austrian mathematician, born in Graz, Austria-Hungary. With Leopold Vietoris he is the namesake of the Mayer-Vietoris sequence in topology. He served as an assistant to Albert Einstein and subsequently worked with him several years as a close collaborator, leading to the nickname "Einstein's calculator".
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Lived 1887 to 1948 · aged 61
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