Adolf Kneser
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Adolf Kneser was a German mathematician
.
He was born in Grüssow, Mecklenburg
, Germany
and died in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland
).
He is the father of the mathematician Hellmuth Kneser
and the grandfather of the mathematician Martin Kneser
.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
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He was born in Grüssow, Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and died in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
).
He is the father of the mathematician Hellmuth Kneser
Hellmuth Kneser
Hellmuth Kneser was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifolds...
and the grandfather of the mathematician Martin Kneser
Martin Kneser
Martin Kneser was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians....
.