Margarethe Kahn
Margarethe Kahn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 August 1880 |
| Died | 28 March 1942 (aged 61) (deported to Piaski on this date, and missing since then) Piaski, Poland |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics (algebraic geometry) |
| Thesis | Eine allgemeine Methode zur Untersuchung der Gestalten algebraischer Kurven [A general method for the study of the forms of algebraic curves] (1909) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
| Other academic advisors | Felix Klein |
Margarethe Kahn (known as Grete Kahn, also Margarete Kahn, born 27 August 1880, missing after deportation to Piaski, Poland on 28 March 1942) was a German mathematician and Holocaust victim. She was among the first women to obtain a doctorate in Germany. Her doctoral work was on the topology of algebraic curves.