Anders Björner
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Anders Björner (born 17 December 1947) received his Ph.D. from
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in 1979, under Bernt Lindström. He is a
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professor of
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, in the Department of Mathematics at the
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,
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,
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. His research interests are in
combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many a ...
, as well as the related areas of algebra, geometry, topology, and computer science. His other positions included being director of the
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and
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of ''
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''. Björner is a recognized expert in
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and
topological combinatorics The mathematical discipline of topological combinatorics is the application of topological and algebro-topological methods to solving problems in combinatorics. History The discipline of combinatorial topology used combinatorial concepts in top ...
.Abstract of the CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences - Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics of Ordered Sets - 18 - 22 July 2005
He is a 1983 recipient of the Pólya Prize, and is a member of the
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since 1999.


Books

* ''Oriented Matroids'' (with
Michel Las Vergnas Michel Las Vergnas (11 January 1941 – 19 January 2013) was a French mathematician associated with Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris, and a research director emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.Bernd Sturmfels Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in Kassel, West Germany) is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig si ...
, N. White and Günter M. Ziegler), Cambridge University Press, 1993. Second Edition 1999, 560 pages. *'' Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups'' (with F. Brenti),
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, Vol. 231, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005, 367 pages. *Chapter "Topological Methods" in ''Handbook of Combinatorics'', (eds. Ronald L. Graham, M. Grötschel and
László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He wa ...
), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 1819–1872. *


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* 1947 births Living people 21st-century Swedish mathematicians KTH Royal Institute of Technology faculty Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Directors of the Mittag-Leffler Institute Stockholm University alumni Combinatorialists 20th-century Swedish mathematicians {{Sweden-scientist-stub