Rolf Georg Schneider (born 17 March 1940, Hagen, Germany) is a mathematician. Schneider is a professor emeritus at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

. His main research interests are

convex geometry In mathematics, convex geometry is the branch of geometry studying convex sets, mainly in Euclidean space. Convex sets occur naturally in many areas: computational geometry, convex analysis, discrete geometry, functional analysis, geometry of num ...

and

stochastic geometry In mathematics, stochastic geometry is the study of random spatial patterns. At the heart of the subject lies the study of random point patterns. This leads to the theory of spatial point processes, hence notions of Palm conditioning, which exten ...

Career

Schneider completed his PhD 1967 with

Ruth Moufang Ruth Moufang (10 January 1905 – 26 November 1977) was a German mathematician. Biography Born to German chemist Eduard Moufang and Else Fecht Moufang. Eduard Moufang was the son of Friedrich Carl Moufang (1848-1885) from Mainz, and Elisa ...

at Goethe University Frankfurt with a thesis titled (''Elliptisch gekrümmte Hyperflächen in der affinen Differentialgeometrie im Großen''). In 1969, he got his Habilitation in Bochum. In 1970, he was appointed as a full professor at

TU Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It wa ...

and in 1974 at the

. He became a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of the

University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg (german: Universität Salzburg), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university in Salzburg municipality, Salzburg state, named af ...

in the same year.

Research

Rolf Schneider is known for his solution of Shephard's problem, his books on stochastic and integral geometry, and his comprehensive monography on the Brunn–Minkowski theory.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schneider, Rolf 1940 births Living people 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society People from Hagen Goethe University Frankfurt alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin