Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs
Deceased Person
1858 – 1931
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Who was Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs?
Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs was a French mathematician who worked on analysis and geometry. He was elected as Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union after the first world war, and used his position to exclude countries with whom France had been at war from the mathematical congresses.
He was awarded the Poncelet Prize for 1913.
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- Born
- Jan 17, 1858
Toulouse - Education
- École Normale Supérieure
- Died
- Oct 29, 1931
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on July 23, 2013
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