Martin Aigner

Martin Aigner (28 February 1942 – 11 October 2023) was an Austrian mathematician and professor at Freie Universität Berlin from 1974 with interests in combinatorial mathematics and graph theory.^[1][2]

Martin Aigner
Aigner in 2004
Born	(1942-02-28)28 February 1942 Linz, Reichsgau Oberdonau, Germany
Died	11 October 2023(2023-10-11) (aged 81) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Occupation	Mathematician
Employer	Freie Universität Berlin

Biography

Martin Aigner was born on 28 February 1942. He received his Ph.D from the University of Vienna. His book Proofs from THE BOOK (co-written with Günter M. Ziegler) has been translated into 12 languages.^[3]

Aigner died on 11 October 2023, at the age of 81.^[4]

Awards

Aigner was a recipient of a 1996 Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for his expository article Turán's Graph Theorem.^[5] In 2018, Aigner received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (jointly with Günter M. Ziegler).^[6]

Selected publications

• Combinatorial Theory (1997 reprint: ISBN 3-540-61787-6, 1979: ISBN 3-540-90376-3; )
• (with Günter M. Ziegler) Proofs from THE BOOK^[7]
  • Aigner, Martin (2001). Proofs from the book. Günter M. Ziegler (2nd ed.). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-540-67865-4. OCLC 45223567.
  • Aigner, Martin (2004). Das Buch der Beweise [Proofs from the book] (in German). Günter M. Ziegler (2., Aufl ed.). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-540-40185-8. OCLC 76595936.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• A Course in Enumeration, 2007, ISBN 3-540-39032-4
• Aigner, Martin (2007). Discrete mathematics. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4151-8. OCLC 76821172.^[8]
• Mathematics Everywhere. Martin Aigner (Author, Editor), Ehrhard Behrends (Editor), 2010
• Alles Mathematik: Von Pythagoras zum CD-player, by Martin Aigner, Ehrhard Behrends, 2008, ISBN 3-8348-0416-9
• Combinatorial search. Teubner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-519-02109-9
• Graphentheorie. Eine Entwicklung aus dem 4-Farben-Problem. Teubner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-519-02068-8
• Diskrete Mathematik. Mit über 500 Übungsaufgaben.
  • Vieweg, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-528-07268-7,
  • corrected edition 12006, ISBN 3-8348-0084-8
• Aigner, Martin (2013). Markov's theorem and 100 years of the uniqueness conjecture : a mathematical journey from irrational numbers to perfect matchings. Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-00888-2. OCLC 853659945.^[9]