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To Cheer You Up in Difficult times 24: Borodin’s colouring conjecture!
An acyclic colouring of a graph is a colouring of its vertices so that the subgraph spanned on union of every two colour classes is acyclic (a forest). Grunbaum conjectured in 1973 that Every planar graph has acyclic colouring with … Continue reading
Ricky and Branko
Two dear friends, and great geometers, Ricky Pollack and Branko Grünbaum passed away a few weeks ago. Ricky was a close friend that both Mazi my wife and I loved, and we were both fascinated by his wisdom, charm and … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convexity, Geometry, Obituary
Tagged Branko Grunbaum, Ricky Pollack
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My Copy of Branko Grünbaum’s Convex Polytopes
Branko Grünbaum is my academic grandfather (see this highly entertaining post for a picture representing five academic generations). Gunter Ziegler just wrote a beautiful article in the Notices of the AMS on Branko Grunbaum’s classic book “Convex Polytopes”, so this … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, People
Tagged Branko Grunbaum, Dom de Caen, Günter Ziegler
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The World of Michael Burt: When Architecture, Mathematics, and Art meet.
This remarkable 3D geometric object tiles space! It is related to a theory of “spacial networks” extensively studied by Michael Burt and a few of his students. The network associated to this object is described in the picture below. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Combinatorics, Geometry
Tagged Architecture, Branko Grunbaum, Michael Burt
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Budapest, Seattle, New Haven
Here we continue the previous post on Summer 2010 events in Reverse chronological order. Happy birthday Srac In the first week of August we celebrated Endre Szemeredi’s birthday. This was a very impressive conference. Panni, Endre’s wife, assisted by her … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Conferences
Tagged Branko Grunbaum, Conferences, Endre Szemeredi, Victor Klee
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