Ziegler, G: Do I Count?

On the Number Line 3-Can Bees Count? 5-Can Chickens Compute? 10-And the Name of the Rose 13-Bad Luck? 42-The Answer to Everything? 91-The Numbers on the Bone 1729-Hardy's Taxi 119/100-High Percentages pi-As Beautiful as the Mona Lisa? -1-Victim of a Character Assassination chi0-The End of the Number Line? The Never-Ending Story of Prime Numbers Euclid Is Still Right How Many Prime Numbers Are There? Fermat Made a Mistake The "Mozart of Mathematics" Makes Use of an Error Another Search for Errors The Mathematical Perspective Estimates Random Numbers Everything Far Above Average Integers Caution: Equations Equations for Everything? The Body Mass Index The Huntington Affair Pythagoras Lives Equations as Art The Small Puzzles Sudokus 3x + 1 The Perfect Monster The Great Puzzles Where Mathematics Is Created At the Desk At the Coffee Machine At the Cafe In the Computer In Bed In Captivity In an Attic Room in Princeton On a Beach In a Paradise with a Library Knowledge in the ArXiv Research in the Internet? The Book of Proofs About Proofs Concerning Errors About Computer Proofs Concerning Precision Concerning Surprises Three Legends Mathematician vs. Mathematician Was It Kovalevskaya's Fault? The Disappearance of Alexander Grothendieck What Kinds of People Are These? Paul Erdos: Traveler Gian-Carlo Rota: Provocateur Persi Diaconis: Magician Daniel Biss: Politician Caroline Lasser: Colleague What Mathematicians Can Do Self-Confidence and Visions "Unfortunately Difficult" vs. "The Right Stuff" Record Races You Know More Math Than You Think "Mathematics Is ..." Read More Index

Gunter M. Ziegler is a MATHEON professor at Freie Universitat Berlin. Dr. Ziegler is a member of the executive board of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His honors include the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation DFG, the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, and the Communicator Award from DFG and Stifterverband. His research interests connect discrete and computational geometry (especially polytopes), algebraic and topological methods in combinatorics, discrete mathematics, and the theory of linear and integer programming. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT.

"For Ziegler, it's a fact that doing math is a tough, sometimes dirty, business, but also brings incredible amounts of fun." -Der Tagesspiegel "... [the author] succeeds, in his own way, to give an idea of what drives mathematicians, what fascinates them, and where they develop their research. The portraits of colleagues whom he knows personally and whom he describes engagingly and animatedly contribute to this substantially." -Wolfgang Blum, Sueddeutsche Zeitung