Martin Kneser
Appearance
Martin Kneser | |
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Born | 21 January 1928 |
Died | 16 February 2004 | (aged 76)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Göttingen Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Doctoral advisor | Erhard Schmidt |
Doctoral students | Hans-Volker Niemeier Albrecht Pfister Ulrich Stuhler |
Martin Kneser (21 January 1928 – 16 February 2004) was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians.
He obtained his PhD in 1950 from Humboldt University of Berlin with the dissertation: Über den Rand von Parallelkörpern. His advisor was Erhard Schmidt.
His name has been given to Kneser graphs which he studied in 1955. He also gave a simplified proof of the Fundamental theorem of algebra.
Kneser was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1962 at Stockholm.[1] His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups.
See also
[edit]- Approximation in algebraic groups
- Betke–Kneser theorem
- Kneser–Tits conjecture
- Kneser's theorem (combinatorics)
- Kneser graphs
References
[edit]- ^ "Einfach zusammenhängende algebraische Gruppen in der Arithmetik by M. Kneser" (PDF). In: Proc. Int. Congr. Stockholm. 1962. pp. 260–263.