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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Kurt Godel, Stefan Banach, Christian Doppler, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Leopold Vietoris, Karl Menger, Georg von Peuerbach, Emil Artin, Richard von Mises, Franz Alt, Hilda Geiringer, Otto E. Neugebauer, Simon von Stampfer, Johann Radon, Wilhelm Wirtinger, Hellmuth Stachel, Salomon Bochner, Leo Perutz, Nikolaus Hofreiter, Georg Kreisel, Gerald Teschl, Theodor von Oppolzer, Fritz Gesztesy, Gustav Herglotz, Karl Sigmund, Georg Alexander Pick, Sy Friedman, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Frank Spitzer, Walter Feit, Franz Rellich, Edmund Hlawka, Bruno Buchberger, Otto Stolz, Leopold Gegenbauer, Karl Zsigmondy, Henry O. Pollak, Karl Weissenberg, Hermann Rothe, Hermann Flaschka, Felix Pollaczek, Wilhelm Blaschke, Martin Aigner, Ernst Sigismund Fischer, Andreas Stoberl, Rainer Burkard, Emil Weyr, Adam Tanner, Hans Weinberger, Wolfgang Grobner, Josef Finger, Philipp Furtwangler, Walther Mayer, Emil Muller, Gustav von Escherich, Paul Funk, Eduard Helly, Otto Schreier, Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, August Adler, Anton Felkel, Herta Freitag. Excerpt: Emil Artin (March 3, 1898 - December 20, 1962) was an Austrian-American mathematician. Emil Artin was born in Vienna to parents Emma Maria, nee Laura (stage name Clarus), a soubrette on the operetta stages of Austria and Germany, and Emil Hadochadus Maria Artin, Austrian-born of Armenian descent. Several documents, including Emil's birth certificate, list the father's occupation as "opera singer" though others list it as "art dealer." It seems at least plausible that he and Emma had met as colleagues in the theater. They had been married in St. Stephen's Parish on July 24, 1895. Emil entered school in September 1904, presumably in Vienna. By then, his father was already suffering symptoms of advanced syphilis, among them increasing mental instability, and was eventually institutionaliz...
