Mathematician:Moritz Pasch

Mathematician

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 and Definitions

• Pasch's Theorem
• Pasch's Axiom
• Ordered Geometry

Results named for Moritz Pasch can be found here.

Axioms named for Moritz Pasch can be found here.

Publications

• 1882: Vorlesungen über neue Geometrie

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Moritz Pasch": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive