Rolf Schneider


Rolf Georg Schneider is a mathematician. Schneider is a professor emeritus at the University of Freiburg. His main research interests are convex geometry and stochastic geometry.

Career

Schneider completed his PhD 1967 with Ruth Moufang at Goethe University Frankfurt with a thesis titled . In 1969, he got his Habilitation in Bochum. In 1970, he was appointed as a full professor at TU Berlin und in 1974 at the University of Freiburg.
He became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of the University of Salzburg in the same year.

Research

Rolf Schneider is known for his solution of Shephard's problem, his books on stochastic and integral geometry, and his comprehensive monography on the Brunn–Minkowski theory.