Jiří Matoušek (mathematician)
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Jiří (Jirka) Matoušek 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[1] and in 2000 he won the Scientist award of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic.[2]
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- Invitation to Discrete Mathematics (with Jaroslav 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 Mathematics, 2002, ISBN 9780387953731.
- Topics in Discrete Mathematics: Dedicated to Jarik Nešetřil on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (with Martin Klazar, Jan Kratochvil, Martin Loebl, and Robin Thomas). Springer-Verlag, 2006. ISBN 9783540336983.
- Understanding and Using Linear Programming (with B. Gärtner). Springer-Verlag, Universitext, 2007, ISBN 9783540307174.
- Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem: Lectures on Topological Methods in Combinatorics and Geometry. Springer-Verlag, 2008. ISBN 9783540766490.
[edit] References
- ^ EMS Prize Winners
- ^ 2000 Awards, Learned Society of the Czech Republic.
