Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, born in what is now Poland, who is known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on a geometry book. He was born in Breslau, now Wrocław, on 28 May 1902 and died in Moscow on 25 June 1936. The book became Geometry and the Imagination, and his work on the geometry of surfaces includes the Cohn-Vossen inequality and his 1928 address on the Carathéodory conjecture about umbilic points of closed surfaces.
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Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, born in what is now Poland, who is known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on a geometry book.
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Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, born in what is now Poland, who is known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on a geometry book.
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