Isaak Bacharach
Born(1854-12-02)2 December 1854
Seligenstadt, Hesse, German Confederation
Died22 September 1942(1942-09-22) (aged 87)
Theresienstadt concentration camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Known forCayley–Bacharach theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
ThesisÜber Schnittpunktsysteme algebraischer Curven (1881)

Isaak Bacharach (2 December 1854 – 22 September 1942) was a German mathematics professor in Erlangen who proved the Cayley–Bacharach theorem on intersections of cubic curves.[1][2]

He was murdered at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during The Holocaust.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bacharach, I. (1886), "Ueber den Cayley'schen Schnittpunktsatz" (PDF), Mathematische Annalen, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 26 (2): 275–299, doi:10.1007/BF01444338, ISSN 0025-5831, S2CID 120983080
  2. ^ Eisenbud, David; Green, Mark; Harris, Joe (1996). "Cayley-Bacharach theorems and conjectures". Bulletin of the AMS. 33 (3): 295–324. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00666-0.
  3. ^ "Bacharach Isaak: Death Certificate, Ghetto Terezín". Holocaust.cz. Archived from the original on 28 November 2012.

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