Martin Aigner


Martin Aigner was an Austrian mathematician and professor at Freie Universität Berlin from 1974 with interests in combinatorial mathematics and graph theory.

Biography

Martin Aigner was born on 28 February 1942. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna. His book Proofs from THE BOOK has been translated into 12 languages.
Aigner died on 11 October 2023, at the age of 81.

Awards

Aigner was a recipient of a 1996 Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for his expository article Turán's Graph Theorem. In 2018, Aigner received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.

Selected publications

  • Combinatorial Theory
  • Proofs from THE BOOK
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  • , 2007,
  • Mathematics Everywhere. Martin Aigner, Ehrhard Behrends, 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,
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