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Eduard Helly

lived from 1884 to 1943

Helly worked on functional analysis and proved the Hahn-Banach theorem in 1912 fifteen years before Hahn published essentially the same proof and 20 years before Banach gave his new setting.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Helly/