Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a

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mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. His research was in group theory. He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion. The Hirsch length and Hirsch–Plotkin radical are named after him. He taught at the University of Leicester from 1938 (except for a brief internment as an enemy alien in 1940), moved to

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in 1948, and then moved again to Queen Mary College in London in 1951, where he stayed for the remainder of his career and worked with K. W. Gruenberg. Hirsch's doctoral students include Ismail Mohamed and

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Publications

He translated several books from Russian, including: * The Theory of Groups (by

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). His first translation * Algebraic Geometry (by

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). This was later retranslated by

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'' (subscription required). {{DEFAULTSORT:Hirsch, Kurt 1906 births 1986 deaths Humboldt University of Berlin alumni 20th-century German mathematicians 20th-century British mathematicians Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom People interned in the Isle of Man during World War II