Alexander Soifer
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Alexander Soifer is a Russia
n-born American
mathematician
and mathematics
author. His works include over 200 articles, and a number of books, listed below.
Soifer received his Ph.D.
in 1973.
Every spring, Soifer, along with other mathematician colleagues, sponsor the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
. Soifer compiles (and writes some of) the problems for the contest. The CMO was started on April 18, 1983.
In 1991 Soifer founded the research quarterly "Geombinatorics," and publishes it with the Editorial Board, which includes Ronald L. Graham, Branko Grunbaum, Heiko Harborth, Peter D. Johnson Jr., and János Pach
. Paul Erdős
was also an editor.
Soifer has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado since 1979. He was visiting fellow at Princeton University
2002–2004, and again 2006–2007. Soifer also teaches courses on European cinema.
Soifer's Erdős number
is 1.
In July 2006 at the University of Cambridge, Alexander Soifer was presented with "The Paul Erdos" Award" by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.
Dr. Soifer is currently the Senior Vice President of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.
Soifer's current projects include new publications and new expanded editions through renowned scientific publisher, Springer
of previously published books, "Mathematics as Problem Solving," "How does one cut a triangle?," "Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics," and "Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The First Ten Years and Further Explorations." The latter aforementioned title is expected to be expanded to cover twenty years of the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad, which is currently in its 26th year running.
Dr. Soifer is the father of four children Mark Soifer, Julia Soifer, Isabelle Soifer and Leon Soifer.
Russia
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n-born American
United States
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mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
and mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
author. His works include over 200 articles, and a number of books, listed below.
Soifer received his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in 1973.
Every spring, Soifer, along with other mathematician colleagues, sponsor the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs is a campus of the University of Colorado system, the state university system of Colorado....
. Soifer compiles (and writes some of) the problems for the contest. The CMO was started on April 18, 1983.
In 1991 Soifer founded the research quarterly "Geombinatorics," and publishes it with the Editorial Board, which includes Ronald L. Graham, Branko Grunbaum, Heiko Harborth, Peter D. Johnson Jr., and János Pach
János Pach
János Pach is a mathematician and computer scientist working in the fields of combinatorics and discrete and computational geometry...
. Paul Erdős
Paul Erdos
Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...
was also an editor.
Soifer has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado since 1979. He was visiting fellow at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
2002–2004, and again 2006–2007. Soifer also teaches courses on European cinema.
Soifer's Erdős number
Erdos number
The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician Paul Erdős, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.The same principle has been proposed for other eminent persons in other fields.- Overview :...
is 1.
In July 2006 at the University of Cambridge, Alexander Soifer was presented with "The Paul Erdos" Award" by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.
Dr. Soifer is currently the Senior Vice President of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.
Soifer's current projects include new publications and new expanded editions through renowned scientific publisher, Springer
Springer Science+Business Media
- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...
of previously published books, "Mathematics as Problem Solving," "How does one cut a triangle?," "Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics," and "Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The First Ten Years and Further Explorations." The latter aforementioned title is expected to be expanded to cover twenty years of the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad, which is currently in its 26th year running.
Dr. Soifer is the father of four children Mark Soifer, Julia Soifer, Isabelle Soifer and Leon Soifer.
Selected Books
- Mathematics as Problem Solving
- How does one cut a triangle?
- Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics
- Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The First Ten Years and Further Explorations
- The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators, has been in the works for 28 years.
- Life and Fate: In Search of Van der Waerden, appeared in November 2008 in Russian, this book is the report of a 12-year historical investigation into the life of the great 20th-century algebraist Bartel Leendert van der WaerdenBartel Leendert van der WaerdenBartel Leendert van der Waerden was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics....
, the author of one of the most popular mathematical books of all time, Modern Algebra. The expanded English edition is to be published by Springer in 2009.