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Jorg Wills
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German mathematician who first posed the lonely runner conjecture in 1967 in purely number-theoretic terms, one of its two independent originators.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionPosed the lonely runner conjecture in 1967. 2 Notable WorkPosed the Lonely Runner Conjecture in number-theoretic (view-obstruction) form in 1967; pioneered finite sphere packing theory including the sausage conjecture and sausage catastrophe, and a 1993 parametric-density theory unifying finite and infinite sphere packings 1 AwardAustrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class (1995); honorary doctorate, TU Wien (2003); Golden Badge of Honour, German Mathematical Society (2002) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
Conjectures Posed
Posed the conjecture in 1967 in purely number-theoretic terms.
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Primary research field per the source's own opening sentence: discrete, convex and combinatorial geometry, including finite sphere packings and the sausage conjecture.
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1. Joerg Wills (Wikipedia, German)
Wikimedia Foundationopening paragraphQuote, opening paragraph
Joerg Michael Wills (born 5 March 1937 in Berlin) is a German mathematician working in discrete, convex and combinatorial geometry.
1. Joerg Wills (Wikipedia, German)
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Wills earned his doctorate in 1965 under Ernst Max Mohr at TU Berlin. He was a professor at TU Berlin and, from 1974, professor at the University of Siegen, becoming emeritus in 2002. In 1995 he received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, and in 2003 became an honorary doctor of TU Vienna; in 2002 he received the Golden Badge of Honour of the German Mathematical Society. His research areas are discrete geometry, geometry of numbers, finite sphere packings (sausage theorems, the sausage catastrophe), and Diophantine approximation (the view-obstruction problem, the lonely runner conjecture).
2. Lonely Runner Conjecture (Wikipedia)
WikipediaConjectures Posed: Lonely Runner Conjecture, Opening paragraphQuote, Conjectures Posed: Lonely Runner Conjecture, Opening paragraph
The conjecture was first posed in 1967 by German mathematician Jorg Wills
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