Branko Grünbaum 1731976 218750118 2008-06-12T00:23:42Z Mhym 635181 --> adjective [[Image:Branko Grünbaum.jpg|thumb|Branko Grünbaum in 1975.]] '''Branko Grünbaum''' (born 1929) is a [[Croatia]]n-born [[mathematician]] and a professor [[emeritus]] at the [[University of Washington]] in [[Seattle]]. He received his Ph.D. in [[1957]] from [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] in [[Israel]].<ref name="genealogy">{{MathGenealogy|id=26965}}</ref> He has authored over 200 papers, mostly in [[discrete geometry]], an area in which he is particularly well known for various meticulous [[classification theorem]]s. 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 tiling]]s (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 diagram]]s. He is an editor and a frequent contributor to ''[[Geombinatorics]]''. Grünbaum's classical 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 [[2004]], [[Gil Kalai]] and [[Victor Klee]] edited a special issue of ''Discrete and Computational Geometry'' in his honor, the "Grünbaum Festschrift". In [[2005]], Grünbaum was awarded the [[Leroy P. Steele Prizes|Leroy P. Steele Prize]] for Mathematical Exposition from the [[American Mathematical Society]]. Grünbaum has supervised 17 Ph.D.s and currently has at least 66 mathematical "descendants".<ref name="genealogy" /> ==Selected publications== *{{Citation | last=Grünbaum | first=Branko | title = Convex polytopes | location=New York & London | publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]] | year=2003 | isbn=0-387-00424-6 | edition=2nd | editor1-first=Volker | editor1-last=Kaibel | editor2-first=Victor | editor2-last=Klee | editor2-link=Victor Klee | editor3-first=Günter M. | editor3-last =Ziegler | editor3-link = Günter M. Ziegler}}. * {{cite book|author=Grünbaum, Branko; and Shephard, G. C.| title=Tilings and Patterns| location=New York | publisher=W. H. Freeman | year=1987 | id=ISBN 0-716-71193-1}} == References == <references/> * {{cite book|author=Orlik, Peter; and Terao, Hiroaki|title= Arrangements of hyperplanes | location=New York | publisher=Springer |year=1992|id=ISBN 3-540-55259-6}} ==External links== * [http://www.math.washington.edu/~grunbaum/ Personal web page] {{DEFAULTSORT:Grunbaum, Branko}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Combinatorists]] [[Category:20th century mathematicians]] [[Category:American Jews]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni]] [[Category:University of Washington faculty]] {{US-mathematician-stub}}