Geombinatorics Quarterly

College of Letters, Arts & Sciences

Alexander Soifer

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Geombinatorics Quarterly

Alexander Soifer

Volume XXXIII, 2023-2024

Issue 1  (July 2023)

Executive Committee of the International Mathematics Union; It takes thunder to end cover-up: An Essay in 6 Movements

by Alexander Soifer 39
Volume XXXII, 2023-2022

Issue 1  (July 2022)

Popularizing History: Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer and His Friends, A Review of “The Scientific World of Karl- Friedrich Bonhoeffer: The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics” by Kathleen L. Housley

 by Alexander Soifer 48

Issue 2  (October 2022)

There is no censorship in the Western World, or is there? An essay in six movements by Alexander Soifer 87

Issue 3  (January 2023)

Pragmatism beats Historicism in our day and age by  Alexander Soifer 132

Issue 4  (April 2023)

Nesting Parallelepipeds, A Minimax Problem by  Alexander Soifer 186
Volume XXXI, 2022-2021

Issue 2 (October 2021)

Mathematics in the Early XX c. and Her Daughter Emmy Noether: Review in 7 movements of “Emmy Noether – Mathematician Extraordinaire” by David E. Rowe

 by Alexander Soifer 77

Issue 4 (April 2022)

Taking Sides: Geombinatorics' Response to the War and Boycotts

 by Alexander Soifer 148
Volume XXX, 2021-2020
 

Issue 1 (July 2020)

Moral Principles for My Young Colleagues, or
A Tale of Big Man and Little Bird		 By Alexander Soifer    40
 

Issue 2 (October 2020)

Remembering John Horton Conway By Alexander Soifer 53
Remembering Ronald Lewis Graham By Alexander Soifer 56
 

Issue 3 (Jan 2021)

We have nothing to lose except everything by Alexander Soifer 152
 

 

Volume XXIX, 2020-2019

Issue 1 (July 2019)

The International Mathematics Union Abacus Medal By Alexander Soifer    33
 

Issue 4 (April  2020)

A Square-Grid Coloring Problem
Properties, Part I		 By Matthew Kahle, Francisco Martinez-Figueroa, and Alexander Soifer
Volume XXVIII, 2019-2018

Issue 1 (July 2018)

Progress in My Favorite Open Problem of Mathematics, Chromatic
Number of the Plane: An Étude in Five Movements 		 By Alexander Soifer  5

Issue 2 (October 2018)

Truth, Like Water, Finds Its Way Out By Alexander Soifer 106

Issue 3 (January 2019)

Branko, My Teacher, Collaborator, and Friend By Alexander Soifer 139

Issue 4 (April 2019)

Chromatic Problems and Prizes By Alexander Soifer    210
Volume XXVII, 2018-2017

July 2017 (Volume XXVII, Issue 1)

The Secretive Life of the International Mathematics Union By Alexander Soifer 20

October 2017 (Volume XXVII, Issue 2)

An Open Letter to All Nine Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Laureates By Alexander Soifer 84

January 2018 (Volume XXVII, Issue 3)

Laureates on Their Rolf Nevanlinna Prize and the Secrecy IMU President Shigefumi Mori By Alexander Soifer 121

April 2018 (Volume XXVII, Issue 4)

Have the Russians Infiltrated Congressus Numerantium? By Alexander Soifer 162
Volume XXVI, 2017-2016

July 2016 (Volume XXVI, Issue 1)

Reviews    
A Taste for Duality: Erdős, Dilworth, Gallai, Milgram, and Mirsky By Alexander Soifer 30

October 2016 (Volume XXVI, Issue 2)

To Walk the Talk: A Letter to the President of IMU Shigefumi Mori By Alexander Soifer 84

Jan 2017 (Volume XXVI, Issue 3)

Mobilizing Ambiguity of Populism, A Review of “The Third Reich Sourcebook,”Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman (editors) By Alexander Soifer 128

April 2017 (Volume XXVI, Issue 4)

On Some Indiscretions in the Mathematical Community of Russia: A Ballad in 12 Movements By Alexander Soifer 159
Volume XXV, 2016-2015

July 2015 (Volume XXV, Issue 1)

A Book is Born: “Topics in Chromatic Graph Theory” By Robin J. Wilson and Lowell W. Beineke (ed’s By Alexander Soifer 45

October 2015 (Volume XXV, Issue 2)

Truth, like water, will find its way out: My Response to Günter M. Ziegler and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung By Alexander Soifer 76

January 2016 (Volume XXV, Issue 3)

Should We Accept the German Proposal of Their Monopoly on the Third Reich History? A Response to Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze By Alexander Soifer 123
Volume XXIV. 2015-2014

July 2014 (Volume XXIV, Issue 1)

 A spoon of tar can spoil a barrel of honey: An essay inspired by the book Emil Artin and Helmut Hasse: The Correspondence 1923-1958 by Günther Frei, Franz Lemmermeyer, and Peter J. Roquette, (Eds.) By Alexander Soifer 32

October  2014 (Volume XXIV, Issue 2)

Whoever says the truth shall die By Alexander Soifer 84
Book Reviews    
Whoever Said “No” to the Relativity Theory,
A review of Milena Wazeck’s book “Einstein’s Opponents:
The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920’s”		 By Alexander Soifer  

January 2015 (Volume XXIV, Issue 3)

Book Reviews    
A review of Alexander Soifer’s book “The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden” By Harold W. Kuhn  148

April 2015 (Volume XXIV, Issue 4)

Dirty Laundry of Ivory Tower By Alexander Soifer 181
Volume XXIII, 2014-2013


(April 2014 Volume XXIII, Issue 4)

Einstein’s Cocktail of Profundity & Humor, A Review of
Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
by Albert Einstein; Helen Dukas Banesh Hoffmann (ed’s)		 By Alexander Soifer 190
Volume XXII, 2013-2012

July 2012 (Volume XXII, Issue 1)

The Birth of a Problem By Alexander Soifer 24

April 2013 (Volume XXII, Issue 4)

Problems of Paul Erdös    
Paul Erdös at 100 and his Problem Book: an Etude in Six Movements By Alexander Soifer 140
Volume XXI, 2012-2011

July 2011 (Volume XXI, Issue 1)

Book Reviews    
“Because Germany Needs Me,” A Review of David C. Cassidy’s book Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenber, Quantum Physics, and the Bom By Alexander Soifer 34

April 2012 (Volume XXI, Issue 4)

Van der Waerden and Heisenberg:
The Story of One Friendship in Seventeen Sketches		 By Alexander Soifer 138
Volume XX, 2011-2010

July 2010 (Volume XX, Issue 1)

Book Reviews    
Escape of the Mathematical Kind, A Review by Alexander Soifer of Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze’s monograph Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany:
Individual Fates and Global Impact		 By Alexander Soifer  31

October 2010 (Volume XX, Issue 2)

 Books Reviews   77
A Raw Graph Theory Text, A Review by Alexander Soifer of Xiong Bin and Zheng Zhongyi’s textbook Graph Theory (“Mathematical Olympiad” Ser., Vol. 3) By Alexander Soifer 77
Passing the Flaming Torch! A Review by Alexander Soifer of Isaak M. Yaglom’s book “Geometric Transformations IV” By Alexander Soifer 80

January 2011 (Volume XX, Issue 3)

Book Reviews   24

Which Comes First: Research or it Conclusions?A Review by Alexander Soifer of Rüdiger Thiele’s book “Van der Waerden in

 By Alexander Soifer 117
Sensationalist Journalism vs. Exposition of Mathematics
A Review by Alexander Soifer of George G, Szpiro’s book
“A Mathematical Medly: Fifty Easy Pieces of Mathematics”		 By Alexander Soifer 124
To Save and Harass, a review by Alexander Soifer of Alexander Stephan’s book “Communazis’: FBI Surveillance of German Émigré Writers” By Alexander Soifer 128

 

Volume XIX, 2010-2009

October 2009 (Volume XIX, Issue 2)

Part I: Branko Grünbaum, Mathematician & Man    
The Great Geometer is 80 By Alexander Soifer 37
Volume XVIII, 2009-2008

October 2007 (Volume XVII, Issue 2)

Chromatic Number of the Plane Theorem in Solovay’s Ser Theory By Alexander Soifer 85

January 2008 (Volume XVII, Issue 3)

Victor Klee as a Referee By Alexander Soifer 111

April 2008 (Volume XVII, Issue 4)

Book Reviews   172
The Man of Choice, a Review of Heinz-Dieeter Ebbinghaus’s Ernst: An Approach to His Life and Work By Alexander Soifer  

 

 
Volume XVII, 2008-2007

October 2007 (Volume XVII, Issue 2)

Chromatic Number of the Plane Theorem in Solovay’s Ser Theory By Alexander Soifer 85

January 2008 (Volume XVII, Issue 3)

Victor Klee as a Referee By Alexander Soifer 111

April 2008 (Volume XVII, Issue 4)

Book Reviews   172
The Man of Choice, a Review of Heinz-Dieeter Ebbinghaus’s Ernst: An Approach to His Life and Work By Alexander Soifer
Volume XVI, 2007-2006

July 2006 (Volume XVI, Issue 1)

Book Reviews    
Homage to Leo Moser, A Review of Collected Papers of Leo Moser, Edited by William Moser and Paul Ribenboim By Alexander Soifer 242

October 2006 (Volume XVI, Issue 2)

To Paul Erdös By Alexander Soifer 253
Book Reviews   41
The Passions of Brouwer, A Review of Dirk van Dalen’s Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of L.E. J. Brouwer By Alexander Soifer 278
Playing Games with Martin Gardner, A Review of Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American Column By Alexander Soifer 285

December 2006 (Volume XVI, Issue 3)

Investigations    
The Case of the Case of Dr. Dânut Marcu: Serial Plagiarism and Signing False Statements By Alexander Soifer 293
In Search of Van der Waerden, the Early Years By Alexander Soifer 305

April 2007 (Volume XVI, Issue 4)

On Shelah-Soifer Class of Graphs By Dmytro Karabash and Alexander Soifer 363
Volume XV, 2006-2005

July 2005 to April 2006 {Volume XV, Issue 1)

Cover-Up Squared II By Alexander Soifer 28
News    
Monthly “Borrows” Geombinatorics’ Squares. Part II Alexander Soifer 44

April 2006 (Volume XV, Issue 4)

Book Reviews    
The Failed Tests. A Review of M. Schifman’s, editor, You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians By Alexander Soifer 191
The Book is now a book. A Review of P. Brass, W. Moser, and J. Pach’s Research Problems is Discrete Geometry By Alexander Soifer 196
Volume XIV, 2005-2004

July 2004 (Volume XIV, Issue 1)

In Search for van der Waerden, Leipzig and Amsterdam, 1931-1945. Part I: Leipzig By Alexander Soifer 21
Book Reviews    
To Live, To Die, or To Compromise?
A review of Maria Geogiadou’s Contrantin Caratheodory: Mathematics and Politics in Turbulent Times		 By Alexander Soifer 197

October 2004 (Volume XIV, Issue 2)

In Search for van der Waerden, Leipzig and Amsterdam, 1931-1945. Part II: Amsterdam, 1945 By Alexander Soifer 72
Book Reviews    

January 2005 (Volume XIV, Issue 3)

In Search for van der Waerden, Leipzig and Amsterdam, 1931-1945. Part III: Amsterdam, 1946-1951 By Alexander Soifer 124
Book Reviews    
Money in Service of Mathematics: A Review of Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze’s Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars By Alexander Soifer 162
A Geometer’s Bible: A Review of J.E. Goodman and J. O’Rourke, editors’ Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry By Alexander Soifer 166
What is a Mathematician’s Idea of Fun? A Review of Peter Winkler’s Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection  By  Alexander Soifer 170

April 2005 (Volume XIV, Issue 4)

Featured Essay    
On Stephen P. Townshen’s 1979 Proof By Alexander Soifer 181
Cover-Up Squared By Alexander Soifer 221
News    
Monthly “Borrows” Geombinatorics’ Squares. By Alexander Soifer 170
Volume XIII. 2004-2003

July 2003 (Vol XIII, Issue 1)

Chromatic Number of the Plane Part III: Its Future By Saharon Shelah and Alexander Soifer 41

January 2004 (Vol XIII, Issue 3)

Book Reviews    
Terror and Exile: Persecution and Expulsion of Mathematicians from Berlin between 1933 and 1945: By Johen Bruning, Dirk Ferus, and Reinhard Siegmund-Schulze A Review by Alexander Soifer 153

April 2004 (Vol XIII, Issue 4)

Examples on the Plane and Rn By Alexander Soifer and Sharon Shelah 186
Book Reviews    
Public Life of Mathematics under the Nazis: A review of Sanford L. Segal’s Mathematics under the Nazis By Alexander Soifer 197
Volume XII, 2003-2002

July 2002 (Volume XII, Issue 1)

A Geometric Interpretation for a Game with Evolving Rules By Alexander Soifer 31
Book Reviews    
SYMMETRY by Hans Walser A Review by Alexander Soifer 38

April 2003 (Volume XII, Issue 2)

Academic Rights Watch Group as an Example of an Attempt of Academic Survival By Alexander Soifer 51

January 2003 (Vol XII, Issue 3)

Chromatic Number of the Plane and its relatives Part I: The Problem and its History By Alexander Soifer 131

April 2003 (Vol XII, Issue 4)

Chromatic Number of the Plane and its Relatives Part II: Polychromatic Number and 6-Coloring By Alexander Soifer 191
Volume X, 2001-2000

April 2001 (Volume X, Issue 4)

Book Review    
One More Biography of Paul Erdos: A Review of the Book by Bruce Schecter
“My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös”		 By Alexander Soifer 179
Volume IX, 2000-1999

October 1999 (Volume IX, Issue 2)

Branko is 70 By Alexander Soifer 36

April 2000 (Volume IX, Issue 4)

Politics Colored my Mathematics By Alexander Soifer 208
Volume VIII, 1999-1998

July 1998 (Volume VIII, Issue 1)

Packing Clones in Convex Figures By Alexander Soifer 166

October 1998 (Volume VIII, Issue 2)

Book Reviews    
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and Search for Mathematical Truth, By Paul Hoffman
By Alexander Soifer		 61

April 1999 (Volume VIII, Issue 4)

Packing Triangles in Triangles By Alexander Soifer 110
Volume VII, 1998-1997

October 1997 (Volumes VII, Issue 1)

In Memory of Paul Erdös Our Joint Problems in Combinatoral Geometry By Alexander Soifer 25

October 1997 (Volumes VII, Issue 2)

In Memory of Paul Erdös: Our Joint Problems in Combinational Geometry III By Alexander Soifer 66

January 1998 (Volume VII, Issue 3)

In Memory of Paul Erdös: Our Joint Problems in Combinatorial Geometry IV By Alexander Soifer 107

April 1998 (Volume VII, Issue 4)

Discs in a Disc By Alexander Soifer 139
Volume VI, 1997-1996

October 1996( Volume VI, Issue 2)

Piere Joseph Henry Baudet: Ramsey Theory before Ramsey By Alexander Soifer 60

January 1997 (Volume VI, Issue 3)

On the Border of Two Years: An Interview with Paul Erdos By Alexander Soifer 99
“And you don’t even have to believe in G’D But you have to Believe that the book exists” By Alexander Soifer 111

April 2007 (Volume VI, Issue 4)

In Momory of Paul Erdos: Our Joint Problems in Combinatorial Geometry I By Alexander Soifer 156
Volume V, 1996-1995

July 1995 (Volume V, Issue 1)

Issai Schur: Ramsey Theory before Ramsey by Alexander Soifer 6

October (Volume V, Issue 2)

Book Reviews    
Graph Coloring Problem by Tommy R Jenson, Bjarne Toft Review by Alexander Soifer 81

January 1996 (Volume V, Issue 3)

Squares in a Square II by Alexander Soifer 121

 

Volume IV, 1995-1994

January 1995 (Volume IV, Issue 3)

Which Algorithms are Feasible and Which are not Depends on the Geometry of Space-Time by Alexander Soifer 80

April 1995 (Volume IV, Issue 4)

Squares in a Square by Paul Erdös, Alexander Soifer 110
Volume III, 1994-1993

October 1993 (Volume III, Issue 2)

Almost Chromatic Number of the Plane By Iiya Hoffman, Alexander Soifer 38

April 1994 (Volume III, Issue 4)

Six-Realizable Set X by Alexander Soifer 140
Volume II, 1993-1992

April 1993 (Volume II, Issue 4)

Triangles in Convex Polygons By Paul Erdös and Alexander Soifer 72
Volume I, 1991

June 1991 (Volume I, Issue 1)

Triangles in a Two-Colored Plane By Alexander Soifer 6
 

June 1991 (Volume I, Issue 2)

New Essays

Triangles in Three-Colored Plane By Alexander Soifer 11

Responses

Triangles in a Two Colored Plane By Alexander Soifer 13
 

June 1991 (Volume I, Issue 3)

Chromatic Number of the Plane: A Historical Essay By Alexander Soifer 13
 

June 1991 (Volume I, Issue 4)

Relatives of Chromatic Number of the Plane I By Alexander Soifer 13

Responses

Triangles in a Two Colored Plane By Alexander Soifer 21
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