Branko Grünbaum
Branko Grünbaum (born October 2, 1929 in Osijek , Croatia , † September 14, 2018 in Seattle ) was an Israeli mathematician of Yugoslav descent who studied discrete geometry.
Life
Grünbaum began studying mathematics at the University of Zagreb in 1948 and emigrated to Israel in 1949. He received his PhD in 1957 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with Aryeh Dvoretzky ( On some properties of Minkowski spaces ) and then spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study (1958–1960). In 1961 he was at Hebrew University, in 1965 visiting professor at the University of Michigan and from 1966 professor at the University of Washington in Seattle , where he was professor emeritus until his death in September 2018.
Grünbaum dealt among other things with tiling in the plane and in space, polyhedra, hypersurface arrangements and generalized Venn diagrams .
In 2005 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his book on polyhedra, which became the essential resource for researchers in the field (a follow-up to the books by HSM Coxeter ). He was a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation .
Fonts
- with Volker Kaibel, Victor Klee, Günter M. Ziegler : Convex Polytopes. 2nd edition, Springer 2003, ISBN 0-387-00424-6 (first from Grünbaum 1967).
- with Geoffrey Colin Shephard : Tilings and Patterns. WHFreeman, 1987, ISBN 0-7167-1193-1 .
- Grünbaum, Shephard: Tilings with congruent tiles. Bulletin AMS, 1980.
- Grünbaum: What symmetry groups are present in the Alhambra? Notices AMS 2006, PDF file.
- Grünbaum: Configurations of points and lines , American Mathematical Society 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Guggenheim Foundation
- ↑ Branko Grünbaum 1929–2018
- ↑ Branko Grünbaum in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ see GM Ziegler, For Example: On Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Grünbaum's Convex Polytopes, Notices AMS, May 2018, Online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grünbaum, Branko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osijek , Croatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 2018 |
| Place of death | Seattle |