Klaus Leeb

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Klaus Leeb (born January 16, 1942 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian computer scientist and mathematician . He was a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and has now retired.

Klaus Leeb, Erlangen 1972

Live and act

Leeb grew up in Wattens . At the age of 23 he received his doctorate in 1965 under Gustav Lochs at the University of Innsbruck with the thesis A self-dual generalization of Lasker's unique theorem for primary representations . In 1972 he was appointed the first computer science professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, more precisely in the field of theoretical computer science, and has since retired. Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Minnesota .

Leeb made contributions to the Ramsey theory , partly together with Ronald Graham and Bruce Lee Rothschild . In 1971 he was one of the first recipients of the George Pólya Prize .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Who's Who in Germany , 1980
  2. ↑ Klaus Leeb in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Graham, Leeb, Rothschild Ramsey's theorem for a class of categories , Advances in Mathematics, Volume 8, 1972, pp. 417-433
personal data
SURNAME Leeb, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian computer scientist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck