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e interview with Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
GÜNTER ZIEGLER
Günter M. Ziegler is a Professor of Mathematics at Freie Universität
Berlin. His work connects Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry
(especially polytopes) with Topology (in particular configuration spaces)
and Optimization. He is the author of Lectures on Polytopes (Springer
GTM, 1995), of Proofs from THE BOOK (with Martin Aigner, Springer, 6th
edition 2018), as well as of Do I Count? Stories from Mathematics (CRC
2013).
His honors include a Leibniz Prize (2001), the 2008 Communicator Award,
an ERC Advanced Grant (2010), the 2017 Berlin Science Prize and the 2018
Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (with Martin Aigner). He is a
member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, of the German
National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the National Academy
of Science and Technology acatech, and a Fellow of the American
Mathematical Society.
For 2006-2008 he was the President of the German Mathematical Society
DMV. He initiated and co-organized the German National Science Year
2008 and now directs the DMV Mathematics Media Office. He currently
serves as the President of Freie Universität Berlin and as a member of the
Executive Board of the International Mathematical Union.
(Photo credit: Kay Herschelmann)
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GÜNTER ZIEGLER
Günter M. Ziegler is a Professor of Mathematics at Freie Universität
Berlin. His work connects Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry
(especially polytopes) with Topology (in particular configuration spaces)
and Optimization. He is the author of Lectures on Polytopes (Springer
GTM, 1995), of Proofs from THE BOOK (with Martin Aigner, Springer, 6th
edition 2018), as well as of Do I Count? Stories from Mathematics (CRC
2013).
His honors include a Leibniz Prize (2001), the 2008 Communicator Award,
an ERC Advanced Grant (2010), the 2017 Berlin Science Prize and the 2018
Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (with Martin Aigner). He is a
member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, of the German
National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the National Academy
of Science and Technology acatech, and a Fellow of the American
Mathematical Society.
For 2006-2008 he was the President of the German Mathematical Society
DMV. He initiated and co-organized the German National Science Year
2008 and now directs the DMV Mathematics Media Office. He currently
serves as the President of Freie Universität Berlin and as a member of the
Executive Board of the International Mathematical Union.
(Photo credit: Kay Herschelmann)
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