Werner Fenchel
Werner Fenchel · Science & Medicine
Convex analysis; Fenchel duality and conjugate functions
1905, Berlin, Germany — 1988, Copenhagen, Denmark
Germany · Denmark
Werner Fenchel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Convex analysis; Fenchel duality and conjugate functions
Werner Fenchel was a German-born mathematician who founded much of modern convex analysis, introducing Fenchel conjugate functions and Fenchel duality, tools now central to optimization theory. He was Jewish and fled Nazi Germany, spending most of his career in Denmark. During the war he escaped to Sweden with other Danish Jews.
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Convex analysis; Fenchel duality and conjugate functions
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