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Victor LaRue Klee, Jr. (September 18, 1925 – August 17, 2007) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. He spent almost his entire career at the University of Washington in Seattle.




Life


Born in San Francisco, Vic Klee earned his B.A. degree in 1945 with high honors from Pomona College, majoring in mathematics and chemistry. He did his graduate studies, including a thesis on Convex Sets in Linear Spaces, and received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1949. After teaching for several years at the University of Virginia, he moved in 1953 to the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he was a faculty member for 54 years.
He died in Lakewood, Ohio.




Research


Klee wrote more than 240 research papers. He proposed Klee's measure problem and the art gallery problem. Kleetopes are also named after him, as is the Klee–Minty cube, which shows that the simplex algorithm for linear programming does not work in polynomial time in the worst–case scenario.




Service and recognition


Klee served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 1971 to 1973. In 1972 he won a Lester R. Ford Award. In 1977, the MAA recognized Klee by presenting him with their Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics.




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Further reading


Grünbaum, Branko; Robert R. Phelps; Peter L. Renz; Kenneth A. Ross (November 2007). "Remembering Vic Klee" (PDF). MAA Focus. 27 (8). Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America: 20–22. ISSN 0731-2040. Retrieved 2009-05-22. Short biography, and reminiscences of colleagues.




External links


Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics a volume dedicated to Klee on his 65th birthday.
Brief obituary at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
AMS column: People Making a Difference
Victor Klee at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
MAA presidents: Victor LaRue Klee
Shapes of the Future: Some unsolved problems in geometry. Two dimensions, Three dimensions

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