Doron Zeilberger

Doron Zeilberger (Hebrew דורון ציילברגר; born July 2, 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician who deals with combinatorics.

Zeilberger in 1976 received his doctorate in Harry Dym at the Weizmann Institute. 1977/78 he was in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Zeilberger has made many important contributions to combinatorics, especially in the area of hypergeometric identities and series ( Zeilberger algorithm, Wilf - Zeilberger pairs).

For its proof (1995 ) of the "Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture " about the number of matrices with alternating signs he hired 88 volunteers to review the evidence on, required the massive use of computers. A shorter proof was shortly after Greg Kuperberg.

With Herbert Wilf he received for his research Leroy P. Steele Prize in 1998. In 2004 he was awarded the Euler Medal.

With Wilf and Marko Petkovsek 1996 he published the book. It describes a wide range of readers, the results of research on algorithms for simplifying sums with binomial coefficients and for finding and proving hypergeometric identities. The book is readable online, the foreword was written by Donald Knuth.

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Zeilberger is married to a physicist and has three children.