| Rolf Schneider | |
| Birth Name: | Rolf Georg Schneider |
| Birth Date: | 17 March 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Hagen, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Field: | Mathematician |
| Work Institution: | University of Freiburg |
| Alma Mater: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ruth Moufang |
| Known For: | Convex geometry, Stochastic geometry |
Rolf Georg Schneider (born 17 March 1940, Hagen, Germany)[1] is a mathematician. Schneider is a professor emeritus at the University of Freiburg. His main research interests are convex geometry and stochastic geometry.
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 Technische Universität Berlin and in 1974 at the University of Freiburg.
He became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[2] in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of the University of Salzburg in the same year.[3]
Rolf Schneider is known for his solution of Shephard's problem,[4] his books on stochastic and integral geometry,[5] [6] [7] and his comprehensive monography on the Brunn–Minkowski theory.[8] [9]