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Max Dehn (November 13, 1878, Hamburg, Germany – June 27, 1952, Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA) was a German mathematician and a student of David Hilbert. He is most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory. Dehn's students include Ott-Heinrich Keller, Ruth Moufang, Wilhelm Magnus and the artist Dorothea Rockburne. Dehn studied the foundations of geometry with Hilbert at Göttingen in 1899, and obtained a proof of the Jordan curve theorem for polygon. In 1900 he... full article at wikipedia

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