Curt Lindner

Charles Curtis "Curt" Lindner (born July 21, 1938 in Tampa (Florida) ) is an American mathematician who deals particularly with block plans (designs) in combinatorics , for example with Steiner triple systems.

Lindner grew up in Decatur (Georgia). He studied mathematics at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina with a bachelor's degree in 1960, taught a year at a high school in Jacksonville, Florida and then studied at Emory University with a master's degree in 1963. He then taught after he married, four years as an assistant professor at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina , a college for women. He received his PhD from Emory University under Trevor Evans in 1969 (Some Embedding Theorems for Partial Latin Squares). He became Assistant Professor in 1969, Associate Professor in 1973 and Professor at Auburn University in 1976 . From 1985 to 1990 he was an alumni professor there and since 1994 a Distinguished University Professor.

He teaches regularly at the University of Queensland , where he has been an honorary professor since 1994. He is also an honorary professor at the Universita di Catania. He has been visiting professor in Montreal on several occasions and visiting professor at the University of Messina, the University of Waterloo, the University of Newcastle in Australia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Taiwan, Canterbury in New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Istanbul and at McMaster University.

He worked closely with Alexander Rosa since 1974 .

In 2013 he received the Euler Medal .

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SURNAME	Lindner, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lindner, Charles Curtis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tampa (Florida)

[1] Curriculum Vitae by Charles C. Lindner

[2] Curt Lindner in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)