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.
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.
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 (jointly with Günter M. Ziegler).
Bibliography
Combinatorial Theory (1997 reprint: , 1979: ; ) (with Günter M. Ziegler) Proofs from THE BOOK
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,