Ludwig Danzer
Ludwig Danzer | |
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Ludwig Danzer in 2006 | |
| Born | 15 November 1927 Munich, Germany |
| Died | 3 December 2011 (aged 84) |
| 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".
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.
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.