Ludwig Danzer (15 November 1927 – 3 December 2011) was a German geometer working in discrete geometry. He was a student of Hanfried Lenz, starting his career in 1960 with a thesis about "Lagerungsprobleme".[2]

Ludwig Danzer
Ludwig Danzer in 2006
Born(1927-11-15)15 November 1927
Munich, Germany[1]
Died3 December 2011(2011-12-03) (aged 84)
Alma materTechnical University of Munich
Known forDanzer set
Danzer cube
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsTechnical University of Dortmund
Thesis Über zwei Lagerungsprobleme  (1960)
Doctoral advisorHanfried Lenz
Robert Sauer
Frank Löbell
Doctoral studentsEgon Schulte

Danzer's name is popularized in the concepts of a Danzer set, a set of points that touches all large convex sets, and the Danzer cube, an example of a non-shellable triangulation of the cube. It is an example of a power complex, studied by Danzer in the 1980s.[3]

Danzer also found many new tilings.

Ludwig Danzer worked at the Technical University of Dortmund and died on December 3, 2011,[4] after a long illness.

Danzer had at least ten students, the most prominent one being Egon Schulte.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Ole Lünnemann (1998-02-10). "Festkolloquium für Ludwig Danzer (korrigiert)" (in German). Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  2. ^ a b Ludwig Danzer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Ziegler, Günter M. (2012-12-06). "Example 8.9". Lectures on Polytopes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461384311.
  4. ^ "Personendetails - Fakultät für Mathematik, TU Dortmund". www.mathematik.tu-dortmund.de. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
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