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German mathematician
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Male
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Birth:
2 March 1927(Villingen-Schwenningen)
Death:
23 June 2013
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Biography
Introduction
Kurt Leichtweiss (March 2, 1927 in Villingen, Baden – June 23, 2013) was a mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry.
Leichtweiss was born in Villingen-Schwenningen. In 1944, while still in high school he traveled to the Mathematical Institute where his mathematical interests were encouraged. He studied at the University of Freiburg and the ETH Zurich. He was a student of Emanuel Sperner and Wilhelm Süss. He was then a lecturer in Freiburg and in 1963 became a professor at TU Berlin. From 1970 until his retirement in 1995, he was a professor at the University of Stuttgart.
Books
- (with Wilhelm Blaschke), Elementary Differential Geometry, Springer, 1973.
- Affine geometry of convex bodies, Wiley, 1998.
- Convex Geometry, Springer, 1980.
- Analytic Geometry, First Course, Teubner, 1972.