Victor Klee

Victor L. Klee, Jr. (1925, San Francisco – August 17, 2007, Lakewood, Ohio) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. He spent almost his entire career at the University of Washington, Seattle

Born in San Francisco, California, Klee received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1949. In 1953, he moved to the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he was a faculty member for 54 years.Citation | last1 = Gritzmann | first1 = Peter | last2 = Sturmfels | first2 = Bernd | title = Victor L. Klee 1925–2007 | journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society | volume = 55 | issue = 4 | pages = 467-473 | publisher = American Mathematical Society | location = Providence, RI | date = April 2008 | year = 2008 | url=http://www.ams.org/notices/200804/tx080400467p.pdf | issn = 0002-9920] Klee wrote more than 240 research papers during his career. He proposed the Klee's measure problem and the Art gallery theorem. Klee served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 1971 to 1973.

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* [http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Volumes/Vol04.html Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics] a volume dedicated to Klee on his 65^th birthday.
* [http://www.maa.org/news/082107kleeobit.html Brief obituary at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)]