About Martin Kneser
Lived 1928 – 2004 (aged 76). Martin Kneser was a German mathematician and university teacher.
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 the 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 at the ICM 1962 in Stockholm. His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups.
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German mathematician (1928-2004)
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Martin Kneser was born on 21 January 1928 in Greifswald.
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Martin Kneser died on 16 February 2004 in Göttingen.
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Martin Kneser was a mathematician and university teacher.
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