- Branko Grünbaum
Branko Grünbaum (born 1929) is a
Croatia n-bornmathematician and a professoremeritus at theUniversity of Washington inSeattle . He received his Ph.D. in 1957 fromHebrew University of Jerusalem inIsrael .MathGenealogy|id=26965] He has authored over 200 papers, mostly indiscrete geometry , an area in which he is particularly well known for various meticulousclassification theorem s. His paper online arrangements appears to have been the inspiration for a paper byN. G. de Bruijn which is generally held to have initiated the subject ofquasiperiodic tiling s (the most famous example of which is thePenrose tiling of the plane). This paper is also cited by the authors of a monograph on hyperplane arrangements as having inspired their research.Grünbaum has also devised a multi-set generalisation of
Venn diagram s. He is an editor and a frequent contributor to "Geombinatorics ".Grünbaum's classical monograph "Convex polytopes", first published in 1967, has become the main textbook on the subject. His monograph "Tilings and Patterns", coauthored with G. C. Shephard, helped to rejuvenate interest in this classic field, and has proved popular with nonmathematical audiences as well as with mathematicians.
In 2004,
Gil Kalai andVictor Klee edited a special issue of "Discrete and Computational Geometry" in his honor, the "Grünbaum Festschrift". In 2005, Grünbaum was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition from theAmerican Mathematical Society .Grünbaum has supervised 17 Ph.D.s and currently has at least 66 mathematical "descendants".
elected publications
*Citation | last=Grünbaum | first=Branko | title = Convex polytopes | location=New York & London | publisher=
Springer-Verlag | year=2003 | isbn=0-387-00424-6 | edition=2nd | editor1-first=Volker | editor1-last=Kaibel | editor2-first=Victor | editor2-last=Klee | editor2-link=Victor Klee | editor3-first=Günter M. | editor3-last =Ziegler | editor3-link = Günter M. Ziegler.
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External links
* [http://www.math.washington.edu/~grunbaum/ Personal web page]
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