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German mathematician
A.K.A.
Кнезер Мартин, Martin Kneser
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Birth:
21 January 1928(Greifswald, Vorpommern-Greifswald District, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Holy Roman Empire)
Death:
16 February 2004(Göttingen, Göttingen district, Lower Saxony, Germany)
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Göttingen district, Germany
University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Tübingen District, Germany
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Göttingen district, Germany
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Karlsruhe Government Region, Germany
Saarland University
Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Biography
Martin Kneser (21 January 1928 – 16 February 2004) was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians.
He obtained his PhD in 1950 from the Humboldt University of Berlin with the dissertation "Über den Rand von Parallelkörpern". His advisor was Erhard Schmidt.
His name has been given to Kneser graphs which he studied in 1955. He also gave a simplified proof of the Fundamental theorem of algebra.
Kneser was an invited speaker at the ICM 1962 in Stockholm. His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups.