Victor Klee

Victor Klee

Born	(1925-09-18)September 18, 1925 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	August 17, 2007(2007-08-17) (aged 81) Lakewood, Ohio, U.S.
Education	Pomona College University of Virginia (Ph.D.)
Known for	Kleetope Klee–Minty cube Klee's measure problem Algebraic Combinatorics g-Theorem Computational Convexity Hadwiger-Danzer–Grünbaum–Klee
Awards	Lester R. Ford Award (1972) Sloan Fellowship (1972) Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) Allendoerfer Award (1980, 1999) Max Planck Research Award (1992) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Washington
Thesis	Convex Sets in Linear Spaces (1949)
Doctoral advisor	Edward James McShane
Doctoral students	Bernd Sturmfels Robert Phelps

Victor LaRue Klee, Jr. (September 18, 1925 – August 17, 2007) 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 in Seattle.