Wilhelm Blaschke
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| Wilhelm Blaschke | |
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| Born | 13 September 1885 |
| Died | 17 March 1962 (aged 76) |
| Nationality |  Austrian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Hamburg |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Wirtinger |
| Doctoral students | Shiing-Shen Chern Luis Santaló Emanuel Sperner |
| Known for | Blaschke product Blaschke selection theorem Blaschke–Santaló inequality |
Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke (13 September 1885, Graz – 17 March 1962, Hamburg) was an Austro-Hungarian differential and integral geometer.
His students included Shiing-Shen Chern, Luis Santaló, and Emanuel Sperner.
In 1916 Blaschke published one of the first books devoted to convex sets: Circle and Sphere (Kreis und Kugel). Drawing on dozens of sources, Blaschke made a thorough review of the subject with citations within the text to attribute credit in a classical area of mathematics.
[edit] References
- Blaschke, W. (1957). Reden und Reisen eines Geometers. East Berlin.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wilhelm Blaschke", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Blaschke.html.
- Wilhelm Blaschke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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