Karl Reinhardt (mathematician)
German mathematician (1895–1941) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Carl August Reinhardt.
Karl August Reinhardt (27 January 1895 – 27 April 1941) was a German mathematician whose research concerned geometry, including polygons and tessellations. He solved one of the parts of Hilbert's eighteenth problem, and is the namesake of the Reinhardt polygons and the Reinhardt conjecture on packing density.
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Born | January 27, 1895 (1895-01-27) |
Died | April 27, 1941 (1941-04-28) (aged 46) |
Nationality | German |
Education | Goethe Univ. Frankfurt |
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Fields | Geometry |
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Thesis | Über die Zerlegung der Ebene in Polygone (1918) |
Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Bieberbach |
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