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. E. Melchior (1940), ''Über Vielseite der Projektive Ebene.'' Deutsche Math. volume 5, pages 461–475 He also discovered the related inequality now named after him. Melchior was born in

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on 12 November 1912. He studied at the

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and at the

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(TH Dresden). He obtained his Ph.D. at

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on 2 June 1937 with a thesis on a problem on the theory of configurationsEberhard Melchior (1937), ''Untersuchungen über ein Problem aus der Theorie der Konfigurationen''. Ph.D. thesis, Berlin University. advised by

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.Eberhard Melchior
s entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project at University of North Dakota. Accessed on 2009-12-30.

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