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German mathematician (1927–2011) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ludwig Danzer (15 November 1927 – 3 December 2011) was a German geometer working in discrete geometry. He was a student of Hanfried Lenz, starting his career in 1960 with a thesis about "Lagerungsprobleme".[2]
Ludwig Danzer | |
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Born | |
Died | 3 December 2011 84) | (aged
Alma mater | Technical University of Munich |
Known for | Danzer set Danzer cube |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Technical University of Dortmund |
Thesis | Über zwei Lagerungsprobleme (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Hanfried Lenz Robert Sauer Frank Löbell |
Doctoral students | Egon Schulte |
Danzer's name is popularized in the concepts of a Danzer set, a set of points that touches all large convex sets, and the Danzer cube, an example of a non-shellable triangulation of the cube. It is an example of a power complex, studied by Danzer in the 1980s.[3]
Danzer also found many new tilings.
Ludwig Danzer worked at the Technical University of Dortmund and died on December 3, 2011,[4] after a long illness.
Danzer had at least ten students, the most prominent one being Egon Schulte.[2]
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