Kurt Hirsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kurt Hirsch

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1906

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 04-Nov-1986

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German 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 King's College, Newcastle 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 Ascher Wagner.