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Tobias Dantzig

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Tobias Dantzig (February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956) was a Russian American mathematician, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of NUMBER: The Language of Science.

Born in Latvia, Dantzig studied mathematics with Henri Poincaré in Paris. Tobias married a fellow Sorbonne University student, Anja Ourisson, and the couple emigrated to the United States in 1910. Working for a time as a lumberjack in Oregon, Dantzig received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Indiana University in 1916. He taught at Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, and the University of Maryland. Danzig died in Los Angeles in 1956.


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