Kurt Leichtweiss

Kurt Leichtweiss (March 2, 1927 in Villingen, Baden – June 23, 2013) was a mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry.[1][2][3]

Kurt Leichtweiss

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.[2] 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.
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References
  1. "obituary" (in German). Stuttgarter Zeitung. June 29, 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  2. A. Jackson, Oberwolfach, Yesterday and Today, AMS Notices, Volume 47 (2000), Number 7, 758-765.
  3. Hermann Hähl, Eberhard Teufel (2007-06-30). "Kurt Leichtweiß 80" (in German). University of Stuttgart. Retrieved 30 June 2013.


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