Martin Kneser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mathematician
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Place of Birth: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Martin Kneser
- 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.
- His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups.
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