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December 9, 1905
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January 31, 1980
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Emanuel Sperner was a German mathematician born on December 9, 1905, in Prusinowice, Opole Voivodeship. He held citizenship in Germany. Sperner was educated at the University of Freiburg, the University of Hamburg, and Carolinum. His occupation was a mathematician.
He was a student of Otto Schreier and had several notable doctoral students, including Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Gerhard Ringel, Wolfhart Zimmermann, and Kurt Leichtweiss. Emanuel Sperner is the father of another mathematician also named Emanuel Sperner.
Sperner had various notable works throughout his career, such as Sperner's lemma, Sperner family, Sperner's theorem, and the Sperner property of a partially ordered set.
Emanuel Sperner passed away on January 31, 1980, in Sulzburg.
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