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Moritz Pasch

German mathematician

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contribution to geometry

  • Babylonian mathematical tablet
    In mathematics: The foundations of geometry

    …successfully was the German mathematician Moritz Pasch, who argued in 1882 that the mistake had been to rely too heavily on physical intuition. In his view an argument in mathematics should depend for its validity not on the physical interpretation of the terms involved but upon purely formal criteria. Indeed,…

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  • mathematicians of the Greco-Roman world
    In geometry: A grand synthesis

    The German mathematician Moritz Pasch (1843–1930), in his Vorlesungen über neuere Geometrie (1882; “Lectures on the New Geometry”), identified what was wanting: undefined concepts, axioms about those concepts, and more rigorous logic based on those axioms. The choice of undefined concepts and axioms is free, apart from the…

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