Biography:Isaak Bacharach

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Short description: German mathematician
Isaak Bacharach
Born
Seligenstadt, Hesse, German Confederation
Died22 September 1942(1942-09-22) (aged 87)
Theresienstadt concentration camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
NationalityGermany
Alma materUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Known forCayley–Bacharach theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
ThesisÜber Schnittpunktsysteme algebraischer Curven (1881)

Isaak Bacharach (2 December 1854 – 22 September 1942) was a German mathematics professor in Erlangen who proved the Cayley–Bacharach theorem on intersections of cubic curves.[1][2]

He was murdered at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during The Holocaust.[3]

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