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.

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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