Martin Aigner Explained

Martin Aigner
Birth Date:	28 February 1942
Death Place:	Berlin, Germany
Nationality:	Austrian
Occupation:	Mathematician
Alma Mater:	University of Vienna
Employer:	Freie Universität Berlin

Martin Aigner (28 February 1942 – 11 October 2023) was an Austrian mathematician and professor at Freie Universität Berlin from 1974 with interests in combinatorial mathematics and graph theory.^[1]

Biography

Martin Aigner was born on 28 February 1942. He received his Ph.D from the University of Vienna. His book Proofs from THE BOOK (co-written with Günter M. Ziegler) has been translated into 12 languages.^[2]

Aigner died on 11 October 2023, at the age of 81.^[3]

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.^[4] In 2018, Aigner received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (jointly with Günter M. Ziegler).^[5]

Selected publications

• Combinatorial Theory (1997 reprint:, 1979: ;)
• (with Günter M. Ziegler) Proofs from THE BOOK^[6]
  • Book: Aigner, Martin . Proofs from the book . 2001 . Springer . Günter M. Ziegler . 3-540-67865-4 . 2nd . Berlin . 45223567.
  • Book: Aigner, Martin . Das Buch der Beweise . 2004 . Günter M. Ziegler . 978-3-540-40185-8 . 2., Aufl . Berlin . Proofs from the book . German . 76595936.
• A Course in Enumeration, 2007,
• Book: Aigner, Martin . Discrete mathematics . 2007 . American Mathematical Society . 978-0-8218-4151-8 . Providence, R.I. . 76821172. ^[7]
• 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,
• Book: Aigner, Martin . Markov's theorem and 100 years of the uniqueness conjecture : a mathematical journey from irrational numbers to perfect matchings . 2013 . Springer . 978-3-319-00888-2 . Cham . 853659945. ^[8]

Notes and References

1. http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/aigner/ FU-berlin.de
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=bnCI-06iYEMC&dq=%22martin+aigner+is%22&pg=PT1 Google Books
3. http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/math/news/martin_aigner_nachruf.html Wir trauern um Martin Aigner
4. Aigner, Martin. Turán's Graph Theorem. Amer. Math. Monthly. 1995. 102. 9. 808–16. 10.2307/2974509. 2974509.
5. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201804/rnoti-p455.pdf Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
6. Reviews:
7. Review: Web site: Discrete Mathematics Mathematical Association of America . 25 October 2022 . www.maa.org.
8. Review: Web site: Markov's Theorem and 100 Years of the Uniqueness Conjecture Mathematical Association of America . 25 October 2022 . www.maa.org.