Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs

Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs (17 January 1858, Toulouse, France – 29 October 1931, Paris, France) was a French mathematician who worked on analysis and geometry. He was elected as Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union after the first world war, and used his position to exclude countries with whom France had been at war from the mathematical congresses.

He was awarded the Poncelet Prize for 1893.[1]

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