Rolf Georg Schneider (born 17 March 1940,
Hagen
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, Germany) is a mathematician. Schneider is a professor emeritus at the
University of Freiburg
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. His main research interests are
convex geometry
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and
stochastic geometry
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.
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 Elisab ...
at
Goethe University Frankfurt
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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
Technische Universität Berlin
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and in 1974 at the
University of Freiburg
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.
He became a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of the
University of Salzburg
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in the same year.
Research
Rolf Schneider is known for his solution of
Shephard's problem
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, his books on stochastic and integral geometry, and his comprehensive monography on the Brunn–Minkowski theory.
References
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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 Technische Universität Berlin