Victor Klee

Victor Klee
Victor Klee
Born	September 18, 1925; San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	August 17, 2007 (aged 81); Lakewood, Ohio, U.S.
Education	Pomona College; University of Virginia (Ph.D.)
Known for	Kleetope; Klee–Minty cube; Klee's measure problem; Algebraic Combinatorics; g-Theorem; Computational Convexity; Hadwiger-Danzer–Grünbaum–Klee;
Awards	Lester R. Ford Award (1972); Sloan Fellowship (1972); Guggenheim Fellowship (1972); Allendoerfer Award (1980, 1999); Max Planck Research Award (1992); American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Washington
Thesis	Convex Sets in Linear Spaces (1949)
Doctoral advisor	Edward James McShane
Doctoral students	Bernd Sturmfels; Robert Phelps

Victor LaRue Klee, Jr. (September 18, 1925 – August 17, 2007) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. He spent almost his entire career at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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