Jirí Matoušek (mathematician)
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Jiří Matoušek (10 March 1963, Prague
) is a Czech
mathematician
working in computational geometry
. He is a professor at Charles University in Prague
and is the author of several textbooks and research monographs.
In 1996, he won the European Mathematical Society
prize and in 2000 he won the Scientist award of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic.
Prague
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) is a Czech
Czech people
Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...
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....
working in computational geometry
Computational geometry
Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems are also considered to be part of computational...
. He is a professor at Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...
and is the author of several textbooks and research monographs.
In 1996, he won the European Mathematical Society
European Mathematical Society
The European Mathematical Society is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians...
prize and in 2000 he won the Scientist award of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic.
Books
- Invitation to Discrete Mathematics (with Jaroslav NešetřilJaroslav NešetrilJaroslav Nešetřil is a Czech mathematician, working at Charles University in Prague. His research areas include combinatorics , graph theory , algebra , posets , computer science .Nešetřil...
). Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780198502074. Translated into French by Delphine Hachez as Introduction Aux Mathématiques Discrètes, Springer-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 9782287200106. - Geometric Discrepancy: An Illustrated Guide. Springer-Verlag, Algorithms and Combinatorics 18, 1999, ISBN 9783540655282.
- Lectures on Discrete Geometry. Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in MathematicsGraduate Texts in MathematicsGraduate Texts in Mathematics is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are yellow books of a standard size...
, 2002, ISBN 9780387953731. - Topics in Discrete Mathematics: Dedicated to Jarik NešetřilJaroslav NešetrilJaroslav Nešetřil is a Czech mathematician, working at Charles University in Prague. His research areas include combinatorics , graph theory , algebra , posets , computer science .Nešetřil...
on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (with Martin Klazar, Jan Kratochvil, Martin Loebl, and Robin ThomasRobin Thomas (mathematician)Robin Thomas is a mathematician working in graph theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Thomas received his doctorate in 1985 from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia , under the supervision of Jaroslav Nešetřil...
). Springer-Verlag, 2006. ISBN 9783540336983. - Understanding and Using Linear Programming (with B. Gärtner). Springer-Verlag, Universitext, 2007, ISBN 9783540306979.
- Thirty-three miniatures - Mathematical and algorithmic applications of linear algebra. AMS, 2010, ISBN 9780821849774.
- Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem: Lectures on Topological Methods in Combinatorics and Geometry. Springer-Verlag, 2003. ISBN 9783540003625.