Emil Artin was an Austro-German mathematician born on March 3, 1898, in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in what is recently known as Czechoslovakia. When Emil was educated there it was a mainly German speaking city. He did not find himself attracted to mathematics at a very young age, which is very odd since most mathematicians are. He did not show any interest to this subject until about the age of sixteen. He claims that “He didn’…showed first 75 words of 547 total…

…showed last 75 words of 547 total…in The Collected Papers of Emil Artin (1965). The award of the American Mathematical Society’s Cole Prize in number theory honored him. Besides mathematics, Artin had a deep interest in chemistry, astronomy, biology, and old music. He played the flute, the harpsichord, and the clavichord. He was also an amateur astronomer; he built his own telescope as a hobby. He died of a heart attack, at the age of 64 on December 20, 1962 in Hamburg, W. Germany.