Alfred Pringsheim
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Alfred Israel Pringsheim (September 2, 1850 – June 25, 1941) was a German mathematician and artist. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia (now Olawa, Poland) and died in Zürich, Switzerland. A student of Weierstrass, his mathematical work was in the area of real analysis.
Alfred married Hedwig Dohm Pringsheim, an actress in Berlin before their wedding. Together they had four sons and a daughter, including the twins Klaus Pringsheim and Katharina Pringsheim (the wife of Thomas Mann). Pringsheim was Jewish.
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- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Alfred Pringsheim”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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