The latter proof is referenced, and upon checking the end notes, I found that it was published by one 'Lilly Hahn'.

Lilly, thought I, a woman? Sister to Hans? Getting excited I googled 'Lilly Hahn', and found one relevant hit, in the wikipedia article on Hans: 'He married in 1909 Eleonore ("Lilly") Hahn, and they had a baby, Nora'. That was all. So she was his wife, but... but...where did she come from? Where did she train? What else did she prove? So far, I can't find anything about her - no articles on Google scholar, no other mention of her work. How perfectly infuriating. This is not the only one. The history of mathematics (and science) is littered with such desaparecidas.
I was trying to determine the identity of the book reviewer "L. H." for the math journal "Monatshefte fur Mathematik" (around 1910), and decided it was likely "Lilly Hahn" who wrote a paper for that journal in 1914. Googling for information about her, I found your blog post. I spent about an hour, but I finally found some BASIC information about her: Eleonore [Lilly] Minor until 1909, in which year she married Hans Hahn and became Eleonore [Lilly] Hahn. She was born in 1885 and died in 1934.
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I was trying to determine the identity of the book reviewer "L. H." for the math journal "Monatshefte fur Mathematik" (around 1910), and decided it was likely "Lilly Hahn" who wrote a paper for that journal in 1914. Googling for information about her, I found your blog post. I spent about an hour, but I finally found some BASIC information about her: Eleonore [Lilly] Minor until 1909, in which year she married Hans Hahn and became Eleonore [Lilly] Hahn. She was born in 1885 and died in 1934.
ReplyDeletehttps://books.google.com/books?id=75tiAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Eleonore+Minor+heiratete%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Eleonore