Anders Björner

Anders Björner ( born December 17, 1947) is a Swedish mathematician who deals with algebraic and topological combinatorics. He is a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Björner 1979 at Bernt Lindström, Stockholm University PhD ( Studies in homological and combinatorial order theory ).

He was in the 1980s, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1983 he was awarded the George Pólya Prize with Paul Seymour. Since 1999 he is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

He was (until 2010) director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute and editor of Acta Mathematica.

His doctoral include Günter M. Ziegler and Jürgen Richter - Gebert.

Writings

• With Michel Las Vergnas, Bernd Sturmfels, Neil White, Günter M. Ziegler, Oriented matroid, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 2nd edition 1999
• With Francesco Brenti Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Volume 231, Springer -Verlag, 2005
• " Topological Methods" in Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel, Laszlo Lovasz (Eds. ) Handbook of Combinatorics, North -Holland, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 1819-1872.
• Günter M. Ziegler: "Introduction to greedoids ", in Neil White (Editor) Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Volume 40, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 284-357