Claim: Helge von Koch was a Swedish mathematician who was born to Swedish nobility and received his Ph.D. in 1892.
Evidence: Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (25 January 1870 – 11 March 1924) was a Swedish mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. He was born to Swedish nobility. He received his Ph.D. in Uppsala in 1892.