Eugène Ehrhart (29 April 1906 – 17 January 2000) was a French mathematician who introduced
Ehrhart polynomial In mathematics, an integral polytope has an associated Ehrhart polynomial that encodes the relationship between the volume of a polytope and the number of integer points the polytope contains. The theory of Ehrhart polynomials can be seen as a highe ...
s in the 1960s. Ehrhart received his high school diploma at the age of 22. He was a mathematics teacher in several high schools, and did mathematics research on his own time. He started publishing in mathematics in his 40s, and finished his PhD thesis at the age of 60.
Selected publications
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References
A Tribute to Eugène Ehrhart Philippe Clauss, University of Strasbourg.
External links
Mathematicians who were late learners?-list – MathOverflow
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1906 births
2000 deaths
20th-century French mathematicians
University of Strasbourg alumni