Alexander Soifer
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- PhD Mathematics Moscow State University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Soifer is a Russian-born American mathematician and mathematics author. His works include over 400 articles and 13 books. Soifer obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 and has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado since 1979. He was visiting fellow at Princeton University from 2002 to 2004, and again in 2006–2007. Soifer also teaches courses on art history and European cinema. His publications include 13 books and over 400 articles.
Alexander Soifer's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators (2008) (288)
- Axiom of choice and chromatic number of the plane (2003) (43)
- How Does One Cut a Triangle (1990) (26)
- Axiom of choice and chromatic number: examples on the plane (2004) (21)
- Ramsey theory : yesterday, today, and tomorrow (2011) (20)
- The Hadwiger-Nelson Problem (2016) (16)
- Chromatic Number of the Plane & Its Relatives, History, Problems and Results: An Essay in 11 Parts (2011) (14)
- Mathematics as Problem Solving (1988) (14)
- Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics (1991) (13)
- Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey, Prehistory and Early History: An Essay in 13 Parts (2011) (11)
- Chromatic Number of the Plane: An Historical Essay (2009) (9)
- A Six-Coloring of the Plane (1992) (9)
- Covering a square of side n+epsilon with unit squares (2006) (9)
- Chromatic Number of the Plane: The Problem (2009) (8)
- The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad and Further Explorations: From the Mountains of Colorado to the Peaks of Mathematics (2011) (7)
- The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden (2014) (7)
- The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad and Further Explorations (2011) (7)
- Axiom of choice and chromatic number of Rn (2005) (5)
- Another six-coloring of the plane (1996) (5)
- Chromatic Number of a Graph (2009) (5)
- Open Problems Session (2011) (5)
- Criteria for the existence of irreducible systems of generators for Abelian groups (1974) (4)
- Two problems onℵ0-indecomposable Abelian Groups (1986) (4)
- The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The Third Decade and Further Explorations (2017) (4)
- Countable ?-indecomposable mixed abelian groups of finite torsion-free rank (1986) (3)
- A theorem on direct expansions of Abelian groups (1973) (3)
- Abelian groups possessing irreducible systems of generators (1971) (2)
- Competitions for Young Mathematicians (2017) (2)
- Countable countably — Indecomposable abelian groups, n-decomposable for any finite n (1983) (2)
- The Scholar and the State (2015) (2)
- Etude on the Chromatic Number of the Plane (2010) (1)
- The Flavor of the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: A Concerto in Four Movements (2020) (1)
- The Soifer (formerly Colorado) Mathematical Olympiad, why it was founded, bridge between its problems and mathematics, and lives of its winners: an essay (2022) (1)
- E4. How Does One Cut a Triangle (2011) (1)
- Dimension of a Graph (2009) (1)
- A Pool Table, Irrational Numbers, and Integral Independence (2009) (1)
- A Word About Graphs (2010) (1)
- Movement 1. The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad Is Mathematics; It Is Sport; It Is Art. And It Is Also Community, by Matthew Kahle (2017) (1)
- A Quarter a Century of Discovering and Inspiring Young Gifted Mathematicians: All the Best from Colorado Mathematical Olympiad (2008) (1)
- A square-grid coloring problem (2020) (1)
- The Story of The Book (2015) (1)
- Solution of the irwin conjecture in gch (1987) (1)
- E7. Rectangles in a Colored Plane (2011) (0)
- Gallai’s Theorem (2009) (0)
- Mitya Karabash and a Tiling Conjecture (2010) (0)
- On Active and Passive Opposition in the Third Reich (2015) (0)
- Seventh Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 27, 1990 (2011) (0)
- In Search of Van der Waerden: The Postwar Amsterdam, 1945166 (2009) (0)
- Matthew Kahle on the Five-Point Problem (2009) (0)
- What If We Had No Choice (2009) (0)
- Twenty-Second Colorado Mathematical Olympiad (2017) (0)
- Three Celebrated Ideas (2011) (0)
- The Man behind the Theory: Frank Plumpton Ramsey (2009) (0)
- Convex Figures and Erdőos’ Function S α (F) (2009) (0)
- Convex Figures and the Function S(F) (2009) (0)
- Thoughts at the Time of an Epidemic (2020) (0)
- Miklós Laczkovich on Cutting Triangles (2009) (0)
- Countable ℵ0-Indecomposable Mixed Abelian Groups of Torsion-Free Rank I (1984) (0)
- Monochromatic Arithmetic Progressions: Life After Van der Waerden (2009) (0)
- Introduction to Part V (2011) (0)
- Measurable Chromatic Number of the Plane (2009) (0)
- E3. Polygons in a Colored Circle, Polyhedra in a Colored Sphere (2011) (0)
- Victorian Comedy of Errors and Colorful Progress (2009) (0)
- The Olympiad: How It Has Continued and What It Has Become (2011) (0)
- Why Van der Waerden and Why Me (2015) (0)
- How the Four-Color Conjecture Was Born (2009) (0)
- First Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 27, 1984 (2011) (0)
- How I Envision Mathematics Education: Introduction to Part IV (2011) (0)
- Van der Waerden, Goudsmit, and Heisenberg: A Letteral Triangle (2015) (0)
- A Glimpse into the Future: Chromatic Number of the Plane, Theorems and Conjectures (2009) (0)
- Seventeenth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 21, 2000 (2011) (0)
- Edge Colored Graphs: Ramsey and Folkman Numbers (2009) (0)
- Excursion in Trigonometry (2009) (0)
- Job History 1945–1947 (2015) (0)
- In Search of Van der Waerden: The Nazi Leipzig, 1933–1945 (2009) (0)
- Is There Anything Beyond the Solution (2009) (0)
- Classic Conjectures Allow Young Mathematicians to Commence Research (2017) (0)
- Nineteenth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 19, 2002 (2011) (0)
- Thirteenth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 19, 1996 (2011) (0)
- The Drama of Van der Waerden (2015) (0)
- A Dream of Göttingen (2015) (0)
- Furniture and Scientific Books (2015) (0)
- The Long Way Home (1998) (0)
- One Faculty Meeting at Leipzig (2015) (0)
- Imagining the Real, Realizing the Imaginary (2009) (0)
- Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: How it Started and What it has Become (2011) (0)
- Movement 4. Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: Reminiscences by Robert Ewell (2017) (0)
- On to Germany (2015) (0)
- Home, Bittersweet Home (2015) (0)
- The Theorem Becomes Classic (2015) (0)
- Fourth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 17, 1987 (2011) (0)
- Monochromatic Polygons in a 2-Colored Plane (2009) (0)
- Kempe–Heawood’s Five-Color Theorem and Tait’s Equivalence (2009) (0)
- A Cloud of Suspicion (2015) (0)
- E10. The Schur Theorem (2011) (0)
- Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove (2015) (0)
- Language and Some Celebrated Ideas (2009) (0)
- Excursions in Algebra (2009) (0)
- Tiling a Checker Rectangle (2010) (0)
- A Story of Colored Polygons and Arithmetic Progressions (2009) (0)
- How Does One Color Infinite Maps? A Bagatelle (2009) (0)
- Geometric etudes in combinatorial mathematics / Alexander Soifer (2010) (0)
- Polychromatic Number of the Plane and Results Near the Upper Bound (2009) (0)
- Eighteenth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 20, 2001 (2011) (0)
- Chromatic Number of the Plane Meets Map Coloring: Townsend–Woodall’s 5-Color Theorem (2009) (0)
- The Princeton Job Offer (2015) (0)
- Minimizing Disagreements in the United Nations (2020) (0)
- Van der Waerden at Hamburg (2015) (0)
- E16. Olde Victorian Map Colouring (2011) (0)
- Farewell to the Reader (2009) (0)
- The Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions (2015) (0)
- Carsten Thomassen’s 7-Color Theorem (2009) (0)
- E19. From King Arthur to Mysteries of Hamiltonian Graphs (2011) (0)
- De Bruijn–Erdős Reduction to Finite Sets and Results Near the Lower Bound (2009) (0)
- Eleventh Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 22, 1994 (2011) (0)
- The Sixth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 21, 1989 (2011) (0)
- The New World or Old (2015) (0)
- Solution of an Erdős Problem: O’Donnell’s Theorem (2009) (0)
- Application of Bergelson–Leibman’s and Mordell–Faltings’ Theorems (2009) (0)
- Fifteenth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 24, 1998 (2011) (0)
- Van der Waerden in Defense of Heisenberg (2015) (0)
- Pursuit of the Best Result (2009) (0)
- Twelfth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 28, 1995 (2011) (0)
- E15. From Squares in a Square to Clones in Convex Figures (2011) (0)
- E22. Deep Roots of Uniqueness (2017) (0)
- Soifer’s One-Hundred-Dollar Problem and Mitya Karabash (2009) (0)
- A Rebellion in Brouwer’s Amsterdam (2015) (0)
- E13. The Erdős Train Station (2011) (0)
- Two Celebrated Problems (2009) (0)
- The Joys of Young Bartel24 (2015) (0)
- E27: Coloring Integers—Entertainment of Mathematical Kind (2017) (0)
- Fifth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 22, 1988 (2011) (0)
- Sixteenth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 23, 1999 (2011) (0)
- Eighth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 26, 1991 (2011) (0)
- E24: One Amazing Problem and Its Connections to Everything—A Conversation in Three Movements (2017) (0)
- The Great Debate (2009) (0)
- Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey: Schur’s Coloring Solution of a Colored Problem and Its Generalizations (2009) (0)
- E26: Mark Heim’s Proof (2017) (0)
- The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book (2015) (0)
- Professorship at Amsterdam (2015) (0)
- An Alternative Proof of Grand Problem II (2009) (0)
- Reunions of Old Friends: Van der Waerden and Heisenberg (2015) (0)
- Movement 2. I’ve Begun Paying Off My Debt with New Kids, by Aaron Parsons (2017) (0)
- Movement 3: Aesthetic of Personal Mastery, by Hannah Alpert (2017) (0)
- Farewell to the Reader: “I Hope and I Hope” 533 (2015) (0)
- Barrau’s Succession at Utrecht (2015) (0)
- E25: The Story of One Old Erdős Problem (2017) (0)
- Continuum of 6-Colorings of the Plane (2009) (0)
- “America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee”382 (2015) (0)
- E30: Birth of a Problem: The Story of Creation in Seven Stages (2017) (0)
- E12. Stone Age Entertainment (2011) (0)
- Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove? Two Lives Between Two Wars: Issai Schur and Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet (2009) (0)
- Twentieth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 18, 2003 (2011) (0)
- Eulogy for the Beloved Teacher (2015) (0)
- Coffee Hour and the Conway–Soifer Cover-Up (2009) (0)
- The Four-Color Theorem (2009) (0)
- Edge Chromatic Number of a Graph (2009) (0)
- Proofs of Existence (2010) (0)
- Escape to Neutrality (2015) (0)
- E21. Cover-Up with John Conway, Mitya Karabash, and Ron Graham (2017) (0)
- E9. Infinite-Finite (2011) (0)
- How Does One Cut a Triangle? II (2009) (0)
- Reminiscences in Eight Parts (2011) (0)
- Coloring in Space (2009) (0)
- Building Bridges Between Olympiads and Mathematics: Three Long-Distance Trains of Thought (2020) (0)
- Second Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 19, 1985 (2011) (0)
- Chess 7 × 7 (2009) (0)
- Chromatic Number of the Plane in Special Circumstances (2009) (0)
- Topic Study Group No. 30: Mathematical Competitions (2017) (0)
- Greetings to the Reader: What Is History? (2015) (0)
- A Round Table Discussion of the Olympiad, or Looking Back from a 30-Year Perspective (2017) (0)
- E14. Squares in Square: The 1932 Erdős Conjecture (2011) (0)
- Ramsey Theory before Ramsey: Van der Waerden Tells the Story of Creation (2009) (0)
- E11. Chromatic Number of a Grid (2011) (0)
- 3-Colored Plane, 2-Colored Space, and Ramsey Sets (2009) (0)
- E17. Achievement Games: Is Snaky a Loser? (2011) (0)
- Ideas of Combinatorial Geometry (2010) (0)
- Embedding World Records (2009) (0)
- Embedding 4-Chromatic Graphs in the Plane (2009) (0)
- E2. Chromatic Number of the Plane (My Favorite Open Problem) (2011) (0)
- The Dawn of the Nazi Era (2015) (0)
- E23: More about Love and Death (2017) (0)
- E28: The Erdős Number and Hamiltonian Mysteries (2017) (0)
- In Search of Van der Waerden: The Unsettling Years, 1946–1951 (2009) (0)
- Ninth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 24, 1992 (2011) (0)
- From Pigeonhole Principle to Ramsey Principle (2009) (0)
- Application of Baudet–Schur–Van der Waerden (2009) (0)
- E6. Triangles in a Colored Plane (2011) (0)
- E8. Colored Polygons (2011) (0)
- Fourteenth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 25, 1997 (2011) (0)
- De Bruijn–Erdős’s Theorem and Its History (2009) (0)
- E1. Rooks In Space (2011) (0)
- E29: One Old Erdős–Turán Problem (2017) (0)
- Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey: Hilbert’s Theorem (2009) (0)
- From Göttingen to Groningen (2015) (0)
- E5. Points in Convex Figures (2011) (0)
- Paul Erdős: Our Joint Problems (2009) (0)
- Large Progress in Small Ramsey Numbers (2010) (0)
- Transformations of The Book (2015) (0)
- The Happy End Problem (2009) (0)
- E18. Finite Sets of Infinite Fun: Three Classic Problems (2011) (0)
- Goals of Mathematics Instruction: Seven Thoughts and Seven Illustrations of Means (2017) (0)
- Germany Treacherously Invades Holland (2015) (0)
- E20. Exploring Map Coloring (2011) (0)
- The Borsuk Problem Conquered (2010) (0)
- One Heartfelt Letter to a Friend (2015) (0)
- Third Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: April 18, 1986 (2011) (0)
- In Search of Van der Waerden: The Early Years (2009) (0)
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