Geombinatorics Quarterly
Alexander Soifer
Authors
June 2024 (Volume XXXIV, Issue 1)
| New Open Problems and Conjectures in The New Mathematical Coloring Book | By Alexander Soifer | 30 |
January 2025 (Volume XXXIV, Issue 3)
| New results and new open problems and conjectures related to the chromatic number of the plane problem | By Alexander Soifer | 113 |
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 |
Issue 2 (October 2023)
| “Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information,” Review of Basics of Ramsey Theory by Veselin Jungić | by Alexander Soifer | 67 |
Issue 3 (January 2024)
| A Popular Biography with Scholarly Guest Boxes: A Review of “Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers” by Cheryl Misak | by Alexander Soifer | 132 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
(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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
October 2009 (Volume XIX, Issue 2)
| Part I: Branko Grünbaum, Mathematician & Man | ||
| The Great Geometer is 80 | By Alexander Soifer | 37 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
April 1993 (Volume II, Issue 4)
| Triangles in Convex Polygons | By Paul Erdös and Alexander Soifer | 72 |
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 |