About Seligmann Kantor
Lived 1857 – 1903 (aged 45). Seligmann Kantor was an Austrian mathematician, docent, independent scholar, university teacher and scientist.
Seligmann Kantor (6 December 1857, Sobědruhy – 21 March 1903, Sobědruhy) was a Bohemian-born, German-speaking mathematician of Jewish origin in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is known for the Möbius–Kantor configuration and the Möbius-Kantor graph.
Biography Kantor studied mathematics and physics at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, then studied in 1878 in Rome with Luigi Cremona, in Strasbourg, and in 1880 in Paris. In 1881, he received his Habilitation at the K. K. Deutsche Technische Hochschule (DTH) in Prague. He was appointed there in 1883 a Privatdozent for mathematics and continued in that academic post until 1888. He was considered for a professorship in Vienna, but antisemitic political agitation prevented his appointment.
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Who was Seligmann Kantor?
mathematician
When was Seligmann Kantor born?
Seligmann Kantor was born on 6 December 1857 in Sobědruhy.
When did Seligmann Kantor die?
Seligmann Kantor died on 21 March 1903 in Sobědruhy.
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Seligmann Kantor was a mathematician, docent, independent scholar, university teacher and scientist.
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Seligmann Kantor was Austrian.
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