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About Ludwig Danzer
- Ludwig Danzer (15 November 1927 – 3 December 2011) was a German geometer working in discrete geometry.
- He was a student of Hanfried Lenz, starting his career in 1960 with a thesis about "Lagerungsprobleme".Danzer's name is popularized in the concepts of a Danzer set, a set of points that touches all large convex sets, and the Danzer cube, an example of a non-shellable triangulation of the cube.
- It is an example of a power complex, studied by Danzer in the 1980s.
- The Danzer cube is example 8.9 in the book "Lectures on Polytopes" by G.M.
- Ziegler. Danzer also found many new tilings. Ludwig Danzer worked at the Technical University of Dortmund and died on December 3, 2011 after a long illness. Danzer had at least ten students, the most prominent one being Egon Schulte.
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