Jaffe, Tzevi Hirsch

Jaffe, Tzevi Hirsch
(1853-1929)
   Russian mathema-tician. He wrote studies of mathematical theory and invented a calculating machine. He was also a talmudic scholar and an authority on the Jewish calendar.

Dictionary of Jewish Biography. .

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