Martin Kneser

Martin Kneser
Martin Kneser, 1973
Born	21 January 1928(1928-01-21)
Died	16 February 2004(2004-02-16) (aged 76)
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Göttingen Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor	Erhard Schmidt
Doctoral students	Werner Fieger Jürgen Hurrelbrink Herbert Lange Albrecht Pfister Ulrich Stuhler

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 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.

His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups.

See also

• Approximation in algebraic groups

References

• Martin Kneser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Martin Kneser’s Work on Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups

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Name	Kneser, Martin
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Short description	German mathematician
Date of birth	21 January 1928
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Date of death	16 February 2004
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