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Nationality
  
German

Name
  
Gunter Ziegler

Fields
  
TV shows
  
Rote Rosen

Doctoral advisor
  
Anders Bjorner

Role
  
Mathematician

Notable awards
  
Awards
  
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Born
  
19 May 1963 (age 60) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany (
1963-05-19
)

Doctoral students
  
Eva-Maria FeichtnerChristian Haase

Books
  
Lectures on polytopes, Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics

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Günter Matthias Ziegler (born 19 May 1963) is a German mathematician. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the combinatorics of polytopes.

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Biography

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Ziegler studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1981 to 1984, and went on to receive his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1987, under the supervision of Anders Björner. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Augsburg and the Mittag-Leffler Institute, he received his habilitation in 1992 from the Technical University of Berlin, which he joined as a professor in 1995. Ziegler has since joined the faculty of the Free University of Berlin.

Awards and honors

Ziegler was awarded one million Deutschmark Gerhard Hess Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 1994 and the 1.5 million Deutschmark Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany's highest research honor, by the DFG in 2001. He was awarded the 2005 Gauss Lectureship by the German Mathematical Society. In 2006 the Mathematical Association of America awarded Ziegler and Florian Pfender its highest honor for mathematical exposition, the Chauvenet Prize, for their paper on kissing numbers.

In 2006 he became president for a two-year term of the German Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2013 Ziegler was granted the Hector Science Award and became a member of the Hector Fellow Academy. Since July 2016 Ziegler is chair of the Berlin Mathematical School.

Selected publications

  • Proofs from THE BOOK, Springer, Berlin, 1998, ISBN 3-540-63698-6
  • Aigner, Martin; Ziegler, Günter (2003), Proofs from THE BOOK, Berlin; New York: Springer, ISBN 3-540-40460-0 
  • Ziegler, Günter M. (1995), Lectures on Polytopes, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 152, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag .
  • Björner, Anders; Ziegler, Günter M. (1992). "8 Introduction to greedoids". In White, Neil. Matroid Applications. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. 40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 284–357. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511662041.009. ISBN 0-521-38165-7. MR 1165537. 
  • Additional reading

  • Drösser, Christoph (September 13, 2007), "Ein etwas anderer Streber", Die Zeit . Article in German about Ziegler.
  • References

    Günter M. Ziegler Wikipedia