Werner Fenchel

Infobox Scientist
name = Moritz Werner Fenchel


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birth_date = birth date|1905|5|3
birth_place = Berlin, Germany
death_date = death date and age|1988|1|24|1905|5|3
death_place =
residence = Germany,Denmark,USA
citizenship = German
ethnicity = Jewish
field = Mathematics
work_institutions = University of Copenhagen University of Göttingen
alma_mater = University of Berlin
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known_for = Convexity theory
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Moritz Werner Fenchel (May 3, 1905 – January 24, 1988) was a German mathematician. He wrote his doctorate thesis in geometry ("Über Krümmung und Windung geschlossener Raumkurven") under Ludwig Bieberbach at the University of Berlin. He then taught at the University of Göttingen.

Books

*cite book
last=Fenchel
first=Werner
coauthors=Bonnesen, Tommy
title=Theorie der konvexen Körper
series=Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete
volume=3
publisher=1. Verlag von Julius Springer
location=Berlin
year=1934

*cite book
last=Fenchel
first=Werner
coauthors=Bonnesen, Tommy
title=Theorie der konvexen Körper
publisher=Chelsea Publishing Co.
location=Bronx, New York
year=1971
*cite book
last=Fenchel
first=Werner
coauthors=Bonnesen, Tommy
title=Theorie der konvexen Körper
publisher=Springer-Verlag
location=Berlin-New York
year=1974
*cite book
last=Fenchel
first=Werner
coauthors=Bonnesen, Tommy
title=Theory of convex bodies
publisher=L. Boron, C. Christenson and B. Smith. BCS Associates
location=Moscow, Idaho
year=1987
*cite book
last=Fenchel
first=Werner
title=Elementary geometry in hyperbolic space
series=De Gruyter Studies in mathematics
volume=11
publisher=Walter de Gruyter & Co.
location=Berlin-New York
year=1989
*cite book
last=Fenchel
first=Werner
coauthors=Nielsen, Jakob; edited by Asmus L. Schmidt
title=Discontinuous groups of isometries in the hyperbolic plane
series=De Gruyter Studies in mathematics
volume=29
publisher=Walter de Gruyter & Co.
location=Berlin
year=2003

External links

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* [http://www.math.ku.dk/ths/fenchel_w/ Werner Fenchel website] – contains CV, biography, links to archive, etc.