Branko Grünbaum

Branko Grünbaum ( born October 12, 1929 in Osijek in Croatia) is an Israeli mathematician who deals with discrete geometry.

Green Tree began in 1948 to study mathematics at the University of Zagreb in 1949 and emigrated to Israel. It was established in 1957 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Aryeh Dvoretzky doctorate ( On some properties of Minkowski space) and was followed by two years at the Institute for Advanced Study ( 1958-1960 ). In 1961 he was at the Hebrew University, 1965 Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and from 1966 professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is Professor Emeritus today.

Green Tree dealt with, among other tilings in the plane and in space, polyhedra, hypersurfaces arrangements and generalized Venn diagrams.

In 2005 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his book on polyhedra, which became the basic source for researchers in this field ( a successor of books by HSM Coxeter ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • Volker Kaibel, Victor Klee, Günter M. Ziegler: Convex Polytopes. 2nd edition, Springer 2003, ISBN 0-387-00424-6 ( first of Grünbaum 1967).
  • With G. C. Shephard: Tilings and Patterns. W.H.Freeman, 1987, ISBN 0-7167-1193-1.
  • Grünbaum, Shephard: Tilings with congruent tiles. Bulletin AMS, 1980.
  • Green Tree: What symmetry groups are present in the Alhambra? Notices AMS 2006, pdf - file.
  • Green Tree: Configurations of points and lines, American Mathematical Society 2009
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