Rolf Schneider
# Rolf Schneider

Rolf Georg Schneider (born 17 March 1940, Hagen, Germany) 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 (Elliptisch gekrümmte Hyperflächen in der affinen Differentialgeometrie im Großen). In 1969, he got his Habilitation in Bochum. In 1970, he was appointed as a full professor at TU Berlin and 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.

