Jiří Matoušek (mathematician)

Jiří (Jirka) Matoušek (born 10 March 1963) 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.

Matoušek was born in Prague. 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]

Books

• Invitation to Discrete Mathematics (with Jaroslav Nešetřil). Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-850207-4. Translated into French by Delphine Hachez as Introduction Aux Mathématiques Discrètes, Springer-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-2-287-20010-6.
• Geometric Discrepancy: An Illustrated Guide. Springer-Verlag, Algorithms and Combinatorics 18, 1999, ISBN 978-3-540-65528-2.
• Lectures on Discrete Geometry. Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2002, ISBN 978-0-387-95373-1.
• 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 978-3-540-33698-3.
• Understanding and Using Linear Programming (with B. Gärtner). Springer-Verlag, Universitext, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-30697-9.
• Thirty-three miniatures — Mathematical and algorithmic applications of linear algebra. AMS, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8218-4977-4.
• Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem: Lectures on Topological Methods in Combinatorics and Geometry. Springer-Verlag, 2003. ISBN 978-3-540-00362-5.

See also

• Ham sandwich theorem
• Discrepancy theory
• Kneser graph

References

External links

• Jiri Matousek home page
• List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search