Wilhelm Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician whose research was on various aspects of geometry. He also initiated the study of topological differential geometry. He was born in Graz, then part of Austria-Hungary, on 13 September 1885 and died in Hamburg on 17 March 1962. He is important in the history of convex geometry, in particular through the Blaschke selection theorem and the Blaschke product in complex analysis.
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Wilhelm Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician whose research was on various aspects of geometry. He also initiated the study of topological differential geometry.
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Wilhelm Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician whose research was on various aspects of geometry. He also initiated the study of topological differential geometry.
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The three-dimensional case of this result was proven by Wilhelm Blaschke (1917); the full result was proven much later by Luis Santaló (1949) using a technique known as Steiner symmetrization by which any centrally symmetric convex body can be replaced with a more sphere-like body without decreasing its Mahler volume
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