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Paul Koebe

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Paul Koebe was a German mathematician who worked on complex functions. His colleagues found him brilliant but difficult. He was born in Luckenwalde, Germany on 15 February 1882 and died in Leipzig on 6 August 1945. He is known for the uniformization theorem on Riemann surfaces, which he proved in the early twentieth century, and for the Koebe one-quarter theorem and the Koebe function. He was one of the mathematicians who proved the uniformization theorem.

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