Eberhard Melchior
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Eberhard Melchior is a German mathematician
who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940. He also discovered the related inequality now named after him.
E. Melchior was born in Dresden
on November 12, 1912. He studied at the University of Göttingen and at the Dresden Technical University (TH Dresden). He obtained his Ph.D. at Berlin University on June 2, 1937, with a thesis on a problem on the theory of configurations advised by Ludwig Bieberbach.
Mathematician
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who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940. He also discovered the related inequality now named after him.
E. Melchior was born in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
on November 12, 1912. He studied at the University of Göttingen and at the Dresden Technical University (TH Dresden). He obtained his Ph.D. at Berlin University on June 2, 1937, with a thesis on a problem on the theory of configurations advised by Ludwig Bieberbach.