Auguste Dick
Austrian mathematician and historian of mathematics
About Auguste Dick
Lived 1910 – 1993 (aged 83). Auguste Dick was an Austrian mathematician, historian of mathematics and librarian.
Auguste Franziska Dick (née Kraus, 1910–1993) was an Austrian mathematician, historian of mathematics, and handwriting expert, known for her research on the history of mathematics under the Nazis, and for her biography of Emmy Noether.
Dick earned a doctorate from the University of Vienna, and a teaching credential in mathematics and physics, in 1934. At Vienna, she was one of the students working with Olga Taussky-Todd in the seminar of Hans Hahn. She worked as a schoolteacher, and began producing scholarly publications after her retirement.
Her book on Noether, Emmy Noether, 1882–1935 (Birkhäuser 1970) has been translated into both Japanese and English (Heidi I. Blocher, trans., Birkhäuser, 1981). She also assisted in editing the works of Erwin Schrödinger.
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Who was Auguste Dick?
Austrian mathematician and historian of mathematics (1910–1993)
When was Auguste Dick born?
Auguste Dick was born on 28 August 1910 in Vienna.
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Auguste Dick died on 8 November 1993 in Vienna.
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Auguste Dick was a mathematician, historian of mathematics and librarian.
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Auguste Dick was Austrian.
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