Ludwig Danzer | |
|---|---|
 Ludwig Danzer in 2006 | |
| Born | 15 November 1927 |
| Died | 3 December 2011 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Munich |
| Known for | Danzer set Danzer cube |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Technical University of Dortmund |
| Thesis | Über zwei Lagerungsprobleme (1960) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hanfried Lenz Robert Sauer Frank Löbell |
| Doctoral students | Egon Schulte |
Ludwig Danzer (15 November 1927 – 3 December 2011) was a German geometer working in discrete geometry. He was a student of Hanfried Lenz, starting his career in 1960 with a thesis about "Lagerungsprobleme".[2]
Danzer's name is popularized in the concepts of a Danzer set, a set of points that touches all large convex sets, and the Danzer cube, an example of a non-shellable triangulation of the cube. It is an example of a power complex, studied by Danzer in the 1980s. The Danzer cube is example 8.9 in the book "Lectures on Polytopes" by G.M. Ziegler.
Danzer also found many new tilings.
Ludwig Danzer worked at the Technical University of Dortmund and died on December 3, 2011, after a long illness.
Danzer had at least ten students, the most prominent one being Egon Schulte.
References
- ↑ Ole Lünnemann (1998-02-10). "Festkolloquium für Ludwig Danzer (korrigiert)" (in German). Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ↑ "Ludwig Danzer - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.ams.org. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- "Details for Ludwig Danzer". opc.mfo.de. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- "Personendetails - Fakultät für Mathematik, TU Dortmund". www.mathematik.tu-dortmund.de. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- Ziegler, Günter M. (2012-12-06). Lectures on Polytopes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461384311.