Günter M. Ziegler
Günter M. Ziegler ( born May 19, 1963 in Munich) is a German mathematician.
Life
Ziegler began after graduating from high school in 1981 with the study of mathematics and physics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. After three years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge ( 1984-1987 ), he earned his doctorate in 1987 at MIT with Anders Björner. He was 1987-1991 scientific assistant of Martin Grötschel at the University of Augsburg and joined 1991-1992 a year of research in the field of combinatorics on Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden Djursholm on. In 1992 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University Berlin; 1992-1994 he worked ( together with Martin Grötschel ) as head of the department " Combinatorial Optimization " at the Konrad Zuse Center for Information Technology Berlin and a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin. From 1995 to 2011 he was professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin, he is since 2011 a professor of mathematics at the University of Berlin.
From 1993 to 2000 Ziegler was a lecturer of the DFG Research Training Group " Computational Discrete Mathematics " and between 2000 and 2005 as a lecturer of European graduate program " Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation " active. During this time, in 2001, he received the most prestigious German science award, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Since 2006 Ziegler is speaker of the Research Training Group " Methods for Discrete Structures". In 2006 and 2007 he was speaker of the Graduate School Berlin Mathematical School, since then he has been deputy speaker. He is also a member of the DFG Research Center Matheon.
Work
Ziegler works on problems of discrete mathematics, including discrete geometry and topology of discrete structures, and on issues of the linear and discrete optimization.
From 1997 to 2000 Ziegler was a member of the Executive Board of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) and editor of the Communications of the DMV. He was 2006-2008 President of the German Mathematical Society and entrusted 2008 coordinating function with the development of the science of mathematics year.
Together with Martin Aigner he wrote Proofs from THE BOOK, originally in English under the title Proofs from THE BOOK, where, inspired by Paul Erdős, who spoke jokingly of such an ideal book in the possession of God, different to all its elegance distinguishing evidence before are collected for combinatorics.
In 2012 he finished in protest against the price policy of the publisher Elsevier his co-editor of the journals European Journal of Combinatorics Journal of Combinatorial Theory and, Series A.
Honors, Awards and Memberships
- Gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, 1981
- Literature Prize of the gay bookstores for fragments of a Legend, 1993
- Gerhard Hess Prize of the German Research Foundation ( DFG ), 1994
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG, 2001
- In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (Face numbers of 4 - polytopes and 3- spheres ).
- 2005 Gauss Lecture of the DMV.
- Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) ( together with Dr. Florian Pfender ), 2006
- Communicator Award, 2008
- Member of the Leopoldina, since 2009
- He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
- Proofs from THE BOOK, ( Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler ), 1998, Springer Verlag Heidelberg; 4th edition, 2010. Proofs from THE BOOK, ( Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler ), 2002, Springer- Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-540-40185-7 ( German edition of Proofs from the Book); third edition, 2010.
Writings (selection )
- With R. zivaljevic: Homotopy types of subspace arrangements via diagrams of spaces. Math Ann. 295 (1993), no 3, 527-548.
- Generalized Kneser coloring theorems with combinatorial proofs. Invent. Math 147 (2002), no 3, 671-691.
- With B. Benedetti: On locally constructible spheres and balls. Acta Math 206 (2011), no 2, 205-243.