Kurt Leichtweiss

Kurt Leichtweiss (born March 2, 1927 in Villingen, Baden) is 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.^[1] 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.

References

External links

• Kurt Leichtweiss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Prof. Dr. Kurt Leichtweiss, contact page.
• Kurt Leichtweiss is 80 (in German).