Georg Alexander Pick

Georg Alexander Pick (10 August 1859 – 26 July 1942) was an Austrian Jewishmathematician who was murdered during The Holocaust. He was born in Vienna to Josefa Schleisinger and Adolf Josef Pick and died at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. He published it in an article in 1899; it was popularized when Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus included it in the 1969 edition of . He was described as follows: "Pick was a bachelor ... uncommonly correct in clothes and attitude."