A separate article is about Gustave von Grunbaum, a historian.

Branko Grünbaum is a Croatian-born mathematician at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He authored over 200 papers, mostly in discrete geometry. Among his other work he devised a multi-set generalisation of Venn diagrams. He is an editor and a frequent contributor to Geombinatorics.

Grunbaum's monograph Convex polytopes published in 1967 became the main textbook on the subject. For this work in 2005 he received Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the American Mathematical Society.

Books

• Grünbaum, Branko, Convex polytopes, New York ; London : Springer, c2003. ISBN 0387004246.
  Second edition prepared by Volker Kaibel, Victor Klee, and Günter M. Ziegler.
• Branko Grünbaum and G. C. Shephard, Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1987. ISBN 0716711931.

External links

• Personal web page
• Mathematics Genealogy Project

Living people Erdős number 1 | Combinatorists | 20th century | Jewish mathematicians | American mathematicians