Anders Björner

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

Anders Björner at Oberwolfach in 2011

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

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

Books
  • Oriented Matroids (with Michel Las Vergnas, Bernd Sturmfels, N. White and Günter 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. Grötschel and László Lovász), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 1819–1872.
  • Björner, Anders; Ziegler, Günter M. (1992). "8. Introduction to greedoids". In White, Neil (ed.). Matroid Applications. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. 40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 284–357. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511662041.009. ISBN 0-521-38165-7. MR 1165537. Zbl 0772.05026.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References
  1. "Festive Combinatorics in Honor of Anders Björner's 60th Birthday"
  2. Anders Björner's profile at the KTH website
  3. Staff Archived April 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine of the Mittag-Leffler Institute (retrieved 19 October 2009)
  4. Acta Mathematica profile Archived 2009-11-15 at the Wayback Machine at the Springer Verlag website (retrieved 19 October 2009)
  5. Abstract of the CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences - Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics of Ordered Sets - 18 - 22 July 2005 Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine


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