Rolf Georg Schneider (born 17 March 1940,

Hagen Hagen () is a city in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr (river), Ruhr. In 2023, the ...

, Germany) is a mathematician. Schneider is a professor emeritus at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...

. His main research interests are

convex geometry In mathematics, convex geometry is the branch of geometry studying convex sets, mainly in Euclidean space. Convex sets occur naturally in many areas: computational geometry, convex analysis, discrete geometry, functional analysis, geometry of num ...

and

stochastic geometry In mathematics, stochastic geometry is the study of random spatial patterns. At the heart of the subject lies the study of random point patterns. This leads to the theory of spatial point processes, hence notions of Palm conditioning, which exten ...

Career

Schneider completed his PhD 1967 with Ruth Moufang at

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University Frankfurt () is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt ...

with a thesis titled (''Elliptisch gekrümmte Hyperflächen in der affinen Differentialgeometrie im Großen''). In 1969, he got his Habilitation in Bochum. In 1970, he was appointed as a full professor at

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

and in 1974 at the

. He became a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of the

University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg (, ), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university in Salzburg, Salzburg municipality, Salzburg (federal state), Salzburg State, ...

in the same year.

Research

Rolf Schneider is known for his solution of Shephard's problem, his books on stochastic and integral geometry, and his comprehensive monography on the Brunn–Minkowski theory.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schneider, Rolf 1940 births Living people 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society People from Hagen Goethe University Frankfurt alumni Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin