BRANKO GRüNBAUM

'Branko Grünbaum' is a Croatian-born mathematician at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
He has authored over 200 papers, mostly in discrete geometry, an area in which he is particularly well known for various meticulous classification theorems. His paper on line arrangements appears to have been the inspiration for a paper by N. G. de Bruijn which is generally held to have initiated the subject of quasiperiodic tilings (the most famous example of which is the Penrose tiling of the plane). This paper is also cited by the authors of a monograph on hyperplane arrangements as having inspired their research.
Grünbaum has also devised a multi-set generalisation of Venn diagrams. He is an editor and a frequent contributor to ''Geombinatorics''.
Grünbaum's classic monograph ''Convex polytopes'', first published in 1967, has become the main textbook on the subject. His monograph ''Tilings and Patterns'', coauthored with G. C. Shephard, helped to rejuvenate interest in this classic field, and has proved popular with nonmathematical audiences as well as with mathematicians. In 2005, Grünbaum was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the American Mathematical Society.
Grünbaum has supervised 17 Ph.D.s and currently has at least 57 mathematical "descendants".

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★ Convex polytopes, Grünbaum, Branko, , , Springer, 2003, ISBN 0-387-00424-6 (Second edition prepared by Volker Kaibel, Victor Klee, and Günter M. Ziegler).

★ Tilings and Patterns, Grünbaum, Branko; and Shephard, G. C., , , W. H. Freeman, 1987, ISBN 0-716-71193-1

★ Arrangements of hyperplanes, Orlik, Peter; and Terao, Hiroaki, , , Springer, 1992, ISBN 3-540-55259-6

External links

★ Personal web page

★ Mathematics Genealogy Project