Martin Aigner (born February 28, 1942 in

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) is an

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and professor at

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since 1974 with interests in

combinatorial mathematics 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 ...

and

graph theory In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conne ...

. He received his Ph.D from the

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. His book ''

Proofs from THE BOOK ''Proofs from THE BOOK'' is a book of mathematical proofs by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler. The book is dedicated to the mathematician Paul Erdős, who often referred to "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathema ...

'' (co-written with

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) has been translated into 12 languages. He is a recipient of a 1996

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from the

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for his expository article '' Turán's Graph Theorem''. In 2018, Aigner received the

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for Mathematical Exposition (jointly with Günter M. Ziegler).

Bibliography

*''Combinatorial Theory'' (1997 reprint: , 1979: ; ) *(with

) ''

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''A Course in Enumeration''
2007, * *Mathematics Everywhere. Martin Aigner (Author, Editor), Ehrhard Behrends (Editor), 2010 *Alles Mathematik: Von Pythagoras zum CD-player, by Martin Aigner, Ehrhard Behrends, 2008, *Combinatorial search. Teubner, Stuttgart 1988, *Graphentheorie. Eine Entwicklung aus dem 4-Farben-Problem. Teubner, Stuttgart 1984, *Diskrete Mathematik. Mit über 500 Übungsaufgaben. **Vieweg, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden 1993, , **corrected edition 12006, * Review:

References

1942 births Living people Scientists from Linz Austrian Roman Catholics Austrian mathematicians Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Cartellverband members University of Vienna alumni Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences {{Europe-mathematician-stub