Thomas Zaslavsky (born 1945) is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

specializing in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...

. Zaslavsky's mother

Claudia Zaslavsky Claudia Zaslavsky (January 12, 1917 – January 13, 2006) was an American mathematics teacher and ethnomathematician. Life She was born Claudia Natoma Cohen (later changed to Cogan) on January 12, 1917, in Upper Manhattan in New York City and ...

was a high school mathematics teacher and an ethnomathematician in New York; his father Sam Zaslavsky (from

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) was an electrical engineer. Thomas Zaslavsky graduated from the

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. At

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he studied

hyperplane arrangement In geometry and combinatorics, an arrangement of hyperplanes is an arrangement of a finite set ''A'' of hyperplanes in a linear, affine, or projective space ''S''. Questions about a hyperplane arrangement ''A'' generally concern geometrical, top ...

s with

Curtis Greene Curtis Greene is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic combinatorics. He is the J. McLain King Professor of Mathematics at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

published his doctoral thesis. Zaslavsky has been a professor of

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

at the

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since 1985. He has published papers on

matroid theory In combinatorics, a branch of mathematics, a matroid is a structure that abstracts and generalizes the notion of linear independence in vector spaces. There are many equivalent ways to define a matroid axiomatically, the most significant being in ...

and hyperplane arrangements. He has also written on

coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and data storage. Codes are stud ...

lattice point In geometry and group theory, a lattice in the real coordinate space \mathbb^n is an infinite set of points in this space with the properties that coordinate wise addition or subtraction of two points in the lattice produces another lattice poi ...

counting, and Sperner theory. Zaslavsky has made available a bibliography on

signed graph In the area of graph theory in mathematics, a signed graph is a graph in which each edge has a positive or negative sign. A signed graph is balanced if the product of edge signs around every cycle is positive. The name "signed graph" and the no ...

s and their applications.

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