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Martin Kneser
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| Intro | German mathematician | ||
| A.K.A. | Кнезер Мартин, Martin Kneser | ||
| Was | Mathematician Professor Educator | ||
| From | Germany | ||
| Field | Academia Mathematics | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 21 January 1928, Greifswald, Germany | ||
| Death | 16 February 2004, Göttingen, Germany (aged 76 years) | ||
| Star sign | Aquarius | ||
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Biography
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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