Anders Bjorner (born 17 December 1947) ^[1] is a Swedish professor of mathematics , in the Department of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden . He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1979, under Bernt Lindstrom . His research interests are in combinatorics , as well as the related areas of algebra, geometry, topology, and computer science. ^[2]

His other positions included being director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute ^[3] and editor-in-chief of Acta Mathematica . ^[4]

Bjorner is a recognized expert in algebraic and topological combinatorics . ^[5] He is a 1983 recipient of the Polya Prize , and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1999.

Books [ edit ]

• Oriented Matroids (with Michel Las Vergnas , Bernd Sturmfels , N. White and Gunter M. Ziegler ), Cambridge University Press, 1993. Second Edition 1999, 560 pages. ISBN   0-521-77750-X
• Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups (with F. Brenti), Graduate Texts in Mathematics , Vol. 231, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005, 367 pages. ISBN   3-540-44238-3
• Chapter "Topological Methods" in Handbook of Combinatorics , (eds. Ronald L. Graham , M. Grotschel and Laszlo Lovasz ), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 1819?1872.
• Bjorner, Anders; Ziegler, Gunter M. (1992). "8. Introduction to greedoids" . In White, Neil (ed.). Matroid Applications . Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. Vol. 40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . pp.  284?357 . doi : 10.1017/CBO9780511662041.009 . ISBN   0-521-38165-7 . MR   1165537 . Zbl   0772.05026 .

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External links [ edit ]

• Anders Bjorner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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