Martin Kneser

Martin Kneser (21 January 1928 – 16 February 2004) was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians.

Martin Kneser
Martin Kneser, 1973
Born	(1928-01-21)21 January 1928
Died	16 February 2004(2004-02-16) (aged 76)
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Göttingen Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Doctoral advisor	Erhard Schmidt
Doctoral students	Hans-Volker Niemeier Albrecht Pfister Ulrich Stuhler

He obtained his PhD in 1950 from Humboldt University of Berlin with the dissertation: Über den Rand von Parallelkörpern. His advisor was Erhard Schmidt.

His name has been given to Kneser graphs which he studied in 1955. He also gave a simplified proof of the Fundamental theorem of algebra.

Kneser was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1962 at Stockholm.^[1] His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups.

See also

• Approximation in algebraic groups
• Betke–Kneser theorem
• Kneser–Tits conjecture
• Kneser's theorem (combinatorics)
• Kneser graphs