Wilhelm Blaschke
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Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke (13 September 1885, Graz
– 17 March 1962, Hamburg
) was an Austro-Hungarian differential and integral
geometer.
His students included Shiing-Shen Chern
, Luis Santaló
, and Emanuel Sperner
.
In 1916 Blaschke published one of the first books devoted to convex set
s: Circle and Sphere (Kreis und Kugel). Drawing on dozens of sources, Blaschke made a thorough review of the subject with citations within the text to attribute credit
in a classical area of mathematics.
Graz
The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...
– 17 March 1962, Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
) was an Austro-Hungarian differential and integral
Integral geometry
In mathematics, integral geometry is the theory of measures on a geometrical space invariant under the symmetry group of that space. In more recent times, the meaning has been broadened to include a view of invariant transformations from the space of functions on one geometrical space to the...
geometer.
His students included Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.-Early years in China:...
, Luis Santaló
Luis Santaló
Luís Antoni Santaló Sors was a Spanish mathematician.He graduated from the University of Madrid and he studied at the University of Hamburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. His advisor was Wilhelm Blaschke...
, and Emanuel Sperner
Emanuel Sperner
Emanuel Sperner was a German mathematician, best known for two theorems. He was born in Waltdorf , and died in Sulzburg-Laufen, Germany. He was a student at Hamburg University where his advisor was Wilhelm Blaschke...
.
In 1916 Blaschke published one of the first books devoted to convex set
Convex set
In Euclidean space, an object is convex if for every pair of points within the object, every point on the straight line segment that joins them is also within the object...
s: Circle and Sphere (Kreis und Kugel). Drawing on dozens of sources, Blaschke made a thorough review of the subject with citations within the text to attribute credit
Credit (creative arts)
In general, the term credit in the artistic or intellectual sense refers to an acknowledgement of those who contributed to a work, whether through ideas or in a more direct sense.-Credit in the arts:...
in a classical area of mathematics.