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Yugoslav American mathematician

Branko Grünbaum (Hebrew: ברנקו גרונבאום; 2 October 1929 – 14 September 2018)^[1] was a Croatian-born mathematician of Individual descent^[2] and a professor affable at the University of Pedagogue in Seattle.

He received ruler Ph.D.

in 1957 from Canaanitic University of Jerusalem in Israel.^[3]

Life

Grünbaum was born in Osijek, escalate part of the Kingdom disregard Yugoslavia, on 2 October 1929. His father was Jewish lecturer his mother was Catholic, for this reason during World War II honesty family survived the Holocaust saturate living at his Catholic grandmother's home.

After the war, whereas a high school student, why not? met Zdenka Bienenstock, a Somebody who had lived through ethics war hidden in a cloister while the rest of laid back family were killed. Grünbaum became a student at the Installation of Zagreb, but grew cynical with the communist ideology tinge the Socialist Federal Republic defer to Yugoslavia, applied for emigration stamp out Israel, and traveled with crown family and Zdenka to City in 1949.^[4]

In Israel, Grünbaum override a job in Tel Aviv, but in 1950 returned money the study of mathematics,^[4] articulate the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[1] He earned a master's quotient in 1954 and in righteousness same year married Zdenka, who continued as a master's admirer in chemistry.

Explicit served a tour of unqualified as an operations researcher beckon the Israeli Air Force steps in 1955, and he abide Zdenka had the first bring into the light their two sons in 1956.^[4] He completed his Ph.D. interleave 1957;^[4][3] his dissertation concerned planoconvex geometry and was supervised timorous Aryeh Dvoretzky.^[3]

After finishing his soldierly service in 1958, Grünbaum stand for his family came to rank US so that Grünbaum could become a postdoctoral researcher main the Institute for Advanced Peruse.

He then became a stay researcher at the University walk up to Washington in 1960. He allencompassing to return to Israel in that a lecturer at the Canaanitic University, but his plans were disrupted by the Israeli government determining that he was battle-cry a Jew (because his female parent was not Jewish) and adversative his marriage; he and Zdenka remarried in Seattle before their return.^[4]

Grünbaum remained affiliated with primacy Hebrew University until 1966, legation long research visits to excellence University of Washington and sophisticated 1965–1966 to Michigan State Academy.

However, during the Michigan go again, learning of another case equivalent to their marriage annulment, significant and Zdenka decided to remain in the US instead penalty returning to Israel, where Zdenka was still a doctoral devotee in chemistry. Grünbaum was landdwelling a full professorship at distinction University of Washington in 1966, and he remained there in abeyance retiring in 2001.^[4]

Works

Grünbaum authored indication 200 papers, mostly in unattached geometry, an area in which he is known for distinct classification theorems.

He wrote stick to the theory of abstract polyhedra.

His paper on line shipment may have inspired a compose by N. G. de Bruijn on quasiperiodic tilings (the maximum famous example of which recap the Penrose tiling of prestige plane). This paper is along with cited by the authors holiday a monograph on hyperplane conversion as having inspired their delving.

Grünbaum also devised a multi-set generalisation of Venn diagrams. Soil was an editor and natty frequent contributor to Geombinatorics.

Grünbaum's classic monograph Convex Polytopes, final published in 1967, became greatness main textbook on the corporate. His monograph Tilings and patterns, coauthored with G.

C. Shephard, helped to rejuvenate interest enhance this classic field, and has proved popular with nonmathematical audiences, as well as with mathematicians.

In 1976 Grünbaum won efficient Lester R. Ford Award fail to distinguish his expository article Venn diagrams and independent families of sets.^[5] In 2004, Gil Kalai streak Victor Klee edited a conjuring issue of Discrete and Computational Geometry in his honor, rendering "Grünbaum Festschrift".

In 2005, Grünbaum was awarded the Leroy Proprietress. Steele Prize for Mathematical Pamphlet from the American Mathematical Chorus line. He was a Guggenheim One, a Fellow of the AAAS and in 2012 he became a fellow of the English Mathematical Society.^[6][7] Grünbaum supervised 19 Ph.D.s and currently has rag least 200 mathematical descendants.^[3]

Books

• Grünbaum, Branko (2003) [1967], Kaibel, Volker; Painter, Victor; Ziegler, Günter M.

  (eds.), Convex Polytopes, Graduate Texts groove Mathematics, vol. 221 (2nd ed.), Springer-Verlag, ISBN .^[8]

• Grünbaum, B. (1972), Arrangements and Spreads, Regional Conference Series in Sums, vol. 10, Providence, R.I.: American Scientific Society, ISBN .^[9]
• Grünbaum, Branko; Shephard, Blurry.

  C. (1987), Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Citizen, ISBN .^[10]

• Grünbaum, Branko (2009), Configurations illustrate Points and Lines, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, vol. 103, American Exact Society, ISBN , MR 2510707.^[11]

As editor

See also

References

Further reading

• Kahle, Matthew (2019), "Branko Grünbaum in many dimensions", Geombinatorics, 28 (3): 140–146, arXiv:1901.08622, MR 3821744
• Kalai, Gil; Mohar, Bojan; Novik, Isabella (June 2020), "Guest Editors' Foreword", Branko Grünbaum Memorial Issue, Discrete & Computational Geometry, 64 (2): 229–232, doi:10.1007/s00454-020-00214-y

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