Werner Fenchel
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| Moritz Werner Fenchel | |
| Born | May 3, 1905 Berlin, Germany |
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| Died | January 24, 1988 (aged 82) |
| Residence | Germany,Denmark,USA |
| Citizenship | German |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Copenhagen University of Göttingen |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Known for | Convexity theory |
Moritz Werner Fenchel (May 3, 1905 – January 24, 1988) was a German mathematician. He wrote his doctorate thesis in geometry (Über Krümmung und Windung geschlossener Raumkurven) under Ludwig Bieberbach at the University of Berlin. He then taught at the University of Göttingen.
[edit] Books
- Fenchel, Werner; Bonnesen, Tommy (1934). Theorie der konvexen Körper, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete 3. Berlin: 1. Verlag von Julius Springer.
- Fenchel, Werner; Bonnesen, Tommy (1971). Theorie der konvexen Körper. Bronx, New York: Chelsea Publishing Co..
- Fenchel, Werner; Bonnesen, Tommy (1974). Theorie der konvexen Körper. Berlin-New York: Springer-Verlag.
- Fenchel, Werner; Bonnesen, Tommy (1987). Theory of convex bodies. Moscow, Idaho: L. Boron, C. Christenson and B. Smith. BCS Associates.
- Fenchel, Werner; Bonnesen, Tommy (1989). Elementary geometry in hyperbolic space., De Gruyter Studies in mathematics 11. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter & Co..
[edit] External links
- Werner Fenchel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Werner Fenchel website – contains CV, biography, links to archive, etc.
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