Eberhard Melchior (born 12 November 1912, date of death unknown) was a German mathematician who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940.
[1] He also discovered the related inequality now named after him.
Melchior was born in Dresden on 12 November 1912.
He obtained his Ph.D. at Berlin University on 2 June 1937 with a thesis on a problem on the theory of configurations[2] advised by Ludwig Bieberbach.
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