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Alfred Tauber
Alfred Tauber (* November 5th 1866 in Pressburg/Bratislava, † 1942 KZ Theresienstadt) was a mathematician who was born in Bratislava, and died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 1897 he proved a corrected converse of Abel's theorem. G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood coined the term Tauberian to describe converse theorems like that proved by Tauber.
Life
Alfred Tauber studied at the University of Vienna, beginning his course in 1884. Although his main interests were in mathematics, he studied a wide range of topics including physics, philosophy and political economy. He undertook research for his doctorate being advised by Gustav von Escherich but he was also strongly influenced by Emil Weyr. He presented his doctoral thesis Über einige Sätze der Gruppentheorie to the University of Vienna in 1888 and was awarded the degree. Tauber's intention was to publish his thesis but in fact this never happened. He continued to study at Vienna working towards his habilitation. In 1891 he completed his dissertation Über den Zusammenhang des rellen und imaginären Teiles einer Potenzreihe. This was published as a 40 page paper in Monatsh. Math. Phys. in the same year and Tauber began to lecture in Vienna as a privatdozen
The date of his death is unknown. He was sent by the Nazis to Theresienstadt concentration camp on June 28 1942. Just after Tauber arrived the entire non-Jewish population of 3,700 of Theresienstadt was evacuated and he was one of 53,000 inhabitants of the camp.