Mathematician:Moritz Pasch

German mathematician who specialized in the foundations of geometry.

His work served as the inspiration for work by Giuseppe Peano and David Hilbert in their work to re-axiomise the field of geometry.

Best known for his formulation of what is now known as Pasch's Axiom.

Nationality
German (born in what is now Poland).

History

 * Born: 8 November 1843, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
 * Died: 20 September 1930 Bad Homburg, Germany

Theorems

 * Pasch's Theorem
 * Pasch's Axiom

Books and Papers

 * 1882: Vorlesungen über neue Geometrie