Rolf Georg Schneider (born 17 March 1940, Hagen, Germany)[1] is a mathematician.
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 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.