Klaus Fischer | |
Birth Date: | November 12, 1943 |
Birth Place: | Zwickau, Germany |
Death Date: | July 2, 2009 (aged 65) |
Death Place: | Fairfax Station, Virginia, United States |
Nationality: | American, German |
Field: | Mathematician |
Work Institutions: | George Mason University |
Alma Mater: | Northwestern University |
Doctoral Advisor: | Kenneth Roy Mount |
Known For: | algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, graph theory, and combinatorics |
Klaus Gunter Fischer (November 12, 1943 - July 2, 2009) was a German-American mathematician of German origin. He worked on a wide range of problems in algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, graph theory, and combinatorics.
Fischer was chair of the Mathematics Department at George Mason University at the time of his death.