Moritz Werner Fenchel (German: [ˈfɛnçəl]; 3 May 1905 – 24 January 1988) was a German-Danish mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and to...
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Convex conjugate (redirect from Fenchel's inequality)
known as Legendre–Fenchel transformation, Fenchel transformation, or Fenchel conjugate (after Adrien-Marie Legendre and Werner Fenchel). The convex conjugate...
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German mathematician Tom Fenchel (born 1940), Danish marine biologist Werner Fenchel (1905–1988), German mathematician Fenchel's Law, a regularity in population...
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In mathematics, Fenchel's duality theorem is a result in the theory of convex functions named after Werner Fenchel. Let ƒ be a proper convex function on...
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plane convex curves. The theorem is named after Werner Fenchel, who published it in 1929. The Fenchel theorem is enhanced by the Fáry–Milnor theorem,...
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Teichmüller space (section Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates)
Klein, Henri Poincaré, Paul Koebe, Jakob Nielsen, Robert Fricke and Werner Fenchel. The main contribution of Teichmüller to the study of moduli was the...
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Mixed volume (redirect from Alexandrov–Fenchel inequality)
K_{1}\subseteq K_{1}'} . The Alexandrov–Fenchel inequality, discovered by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov and Werner Fenchel: V ( K 1 , K 2 , K 3 , … , K n )...
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In mathematics, Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates are coordinates for Teichmüller space introduced by Werner Fenchel and Jakob Nielsen. Suppose that S is a compact...
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to power in Germany. Käte lost her job because she was a Jew, as did Werner Fenchel, another German-born Jewish mathematician, who was removed from his...
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In convex analysis, the Fenchel–Moreau theorem (named after Werner Fenchel and Jean Jacques Moreau) or Fenchel biconjugation theorem (or just biconjugation...
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politician Werner Finck (1902–1978), German comedian Werner Fenchel (1905–1988), German mathematician Werner Forssmann, (1904–1979), German physician, received...
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convexity assumptions of elementary economics List of convexity topics Werner Fenchel – German mathematician (1905–1988) Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell (1997) [1970]...
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optimization software Quadratically constrained quadratic programming Werner Fenchel, who created the foundation for nonlinear programming Ruszczyński, Andrzej...
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Bernays, Emmy Noether, Hans Lewy, Otto Neugebauer, Herbert Busemann, Werner Fenchel, Franz Rellich, and Wilhelm Magnus. Paul Bernays was among the scholars...
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was solved by Hermann Minkowski, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Werner Fenchel and Børge Jessen: a Borel measure μ on the unit sphere is the surface...
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officer and politician, Member of Parliament. Werner Fenchel, 82, German-Danish mathematician (Fenchel's duality theorem). Lorenzo Greene, 88, American...
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moved again, to the University of Kiel, where he was promoted in 1911; Werner Fenchel has called him "undoubtedly the most prominent" of the mathematicians...
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William Feller (1906–1970), probability theory Käte Fenchel (1905–1983), group theory Werner Fenchel (1905–1988), geometry and optimization theory Mordechai...
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f. Werner Fenchel) Convex function Characteristic function (convex analysis) Closed convex function Convex conjugate Epigraph (mathematics) Fenchel conjugate...
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1911) 1986 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921) 1988 – Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1905) 1989 – Ted Bundy...
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on convex geometry and wrote a book on this subject with his student Werner Fenchel. Bonessen was an invited speaker at the ICM in 1924 in Toronto and in...
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Andrews Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates Nielsen transformation Nielsen theory Nielsen–Thurston classification Nielsen realization problem Werner Fenchel (June...
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University of Frankfurt Doctoral advisor Felix Klein Doctoral students Werner Fenchel Maximilian Herzberger Heinz Hopf Kurt Schröder Wilhelm Süss Johann Friedrich...
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1970 at the University of Copenhagen under the joint supervision of Werner Fenchel and Bent Fuglede. He is known for Jørgensen's inequality, and for his...
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Federer Anita Burdman Feferman Joan Feigenbaum Walter Feit Edward Felten Werner Fenchel Enrico Fermi Arran Fernandez Richard Feynman Tim Finin Thomas Fink Raphael...
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University of Copenhagen she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics under Werner Fenchel, her dissertation, A critical overview of the present theory on atomless...
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April 30 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (d. 2012) May 3 – Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988) May 5 – Floyd Gottfredson, American...
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(1917–1926) Harald Bohr (1926–1929, 1937–1951) Børge Jessen (1954–1958) Werner Fenchel (1958–1962) Bodil Branner (1998–2002) List of Mathematical Societies...
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Eilenberg Paul Erdős Alfred Errera Robert Arthur Fairthorne Willy Feller Werner Fenchel Paul Flamant Maurice Fréchet Hans Freudenthal Ragnar Frisch Otto Frostman...
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Werner Fenchel, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Herbert Busemann, Børge Jessen (1954)....
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