Stefan Cohn-Vossen

Stefan Cohn-Vossen
in Moscow, probably 1936
Born(1902-05-28)28 May 1902
Breslau, Silesia
Died25 June 1936(1936-06-25) (aged 34)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma materWrocław University
Known forCohn-Vossen's inequality
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
ThesisSinguläre Punkte reeller, schlichter Kurvenscharen, deren Differentialgleichung gegeben ist (1924)
Doctoral advisorAdolf Kneser

Stefan Cohn-Vossen (28 May 1902 – 25 June 1936) was a mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. He is best known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on the 1932 book Anschauliche Geometrie, translated into English as Geometry and the Imagination. Both Cohn-Vossen's inequality and the Cohn-Vossen transformation are named after him. He also proved the first version of the splitting theorem.

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