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Victor Klee
American mathematician (1925–2007) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Victor LaRue Klee, Jr. (September 18, 1925 – August 17, 2007) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. He spent almost his entire career at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Born | (1925-09-18)September 18, 1925 |
Died | August 17, 2007(2007-08-17) (aged 81) Lakewood, Ohio, U.S. |
Education | Pomona College University of Virginia (Ph.D.) |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Washington |
Thesis | Convex Sets in Linear Spaces (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward James McShane |
Doctoral students | Bernd Sturmfels Robert Phelps |
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