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Hans Hahn was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. In philosophy he was among the main logical positivists of the Vienna Circle.
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Born 27 September 1879 · Died 24 July 1934 · Q84552
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By Arthur Rosenthal, fourteen years after his death in Vienna in 1934
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Died 1934-07-24.
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Following surgery for a newly diagnosed cancer
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Was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna
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Was the president of the German Mathematical Society
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Helped arrange Moritz Schlick's entry into the group, which led to the founding of the Vienna Circle, the group that was at the center of logical positivist thought in the 1920s
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Awarded Lieben Prize (1921).
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Was nominated a regular Professor there and in 1921 he returned to Vienna with this title, where he stayed until his rather early death in 1934 at the age of 54, following cancer surgery
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Was badly wounded in 1916 and became again Professor extraordinarius, now in Bonn
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And they had a daughter, Nora (born 1910)
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Professor extraordinarius in Czernowitz, at that time a town within the empire of Austria
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Switched over to mathematics and spent some time at the universities of Strasbourg, Munich and Göttingen
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Hahn became a student at the Universität Wien starting with a study of law
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Born 1879-09-27.
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