Ludwig Danzer

Ludwig Danzer
Ludwig Danzer in 2006
Born	(1927-11-15)15 November 1927
Died	3 December 2011(2011-12-03) (aged 84)
Nationality	German
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

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".

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. The Danzer cube is example 8.9 in the book "Lectures on Polytopes" by G.M. Ziegler.

Danzer also found many new tilings.

Ludwig Danzer worked at the Technical University of Dortmund and died on December 3, 2011 after a long illness.

Danzer had at least ten students, the most prominent one being Egon Schulte.

References

• "Details for Ludwig Danzer". opc.mfo.de. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
• "Personendetails - Fakultät für Mathematik, TU Dortmund". www.mathematik.tu-dortmund.de. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
• Ziegler, Günter M. (2012-12-06). Lectures on Polytopes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461384311.