Eberhard Melchior (born 12 November 1912, date of death unknown) was a German mathematician who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940.[1] He also discovered the related inequality now named after him.
Melchior was born in Dresden on 12 November 1912. He studied at the University of Göttingen and at the Dresden Technical University (TH Dresden). He obtained his Ph.D. at Berlin University on 2 June 1937 with a thesis on a problem on the theory of configurations[2] advised by Ludwig Bieberbach.[3]
References
edit- ^ E. Melchior (1940), Über Vielseite der Projektive Ebene. Deutsche Math. volume 5, pages 461–475
- ^ Eberhard Melchior (1937), Untersuchungen über ein Problem aus der Theorie der Konfigurationen. Ph.D. thesis, Berlin University.
- ^ Eberhard Melchior's entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project at University of North Dakota. Accessed on 2009-12-30.
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