Kurt Leichtweiss

Kurt Leichtweiß (March 2, 1927 in Villingen-Schwenningen – June 23, 2013) was a mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry.

In 1944, while still in high school Leichtweiß traveled to the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics where his mathematical interests were encouraged. He studied at the University of Freiburg and the ETH Zurich. He was a student of Emanuel Sperner and Wilhelm Süss. He was then a lecturer in Freiburg and in 1963 became a professor at TU Berlin. From 1970 until his retirement in 1995, he was a professor at the University of Stuttgart. In 1995, he received the Wilhelm Blaschke Medal.

Books

(with Wilhelm Blaschke), Elementary Differential Geometry, Springer, 1973. Affine geometry of convex bodies, Wiley, 1998. Convex Geometry, Springer, 1980. Analytic Geometry, First Course, Teubner, 1972.