About Eberhard Melchior
Lived 1912 – 1956 (aged 43–44). Eberhard Melchior was a German mathematician.
Eberhard Melchior (born 12 November 1912 – July 11, 1956) was a German mathematician who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940. He also discovered the related inequality now named after him.
Melchior was born in Dresden on 12 November 1912. He studied at the University of Göttingen and at the Dresden Technical University (TH Dresden). He obtained his Ph.D. at Berlin University on 2 June 1937 with a thesis on a problem on the theory of configurations advised by Ludwig Bieberbach.
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German mathematician
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Eberhard Melchior was born in 1912 in Dresden.
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Eberhard Melchior died on 11 July 1956 in Dresden.
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Eberhard Melchior was a mathematician.
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