Anders Björner (born 17 December 1947) is a Swedish professor of

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

, in the Department of Mathematics at the

Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest technical university. Since 2018, KTH consist ...

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. He received his Ph.D. from

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in 1979, under Bernt Lindström. His research interests are in

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

, as well as the related areas of algebra, geometry, topology, and computer science. His other positions included being director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute and

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of ''

Acta Mathematica ''Acta Mathematica'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering research in all fields of mathematics. According to Cédric Villani, this journal is "considered by many to be the most prestigious of all mathematical research journ ...

''. Björner is a recognized expert in algebraic and

topological combinatorics The mathematical discipline of topological combinatorics is the application of topological and algebro-topological methods to solving problems in combinatorics. History The discipline of combinatorial topology used combinatorial concepts in topo ...

.Abstract of the CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences - Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics of Ordered Sets - 18 - 22 July 2005
He is a 1983 recipient of the Pólya Prize, and is a member of the

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since 1999.

Books

* ''Oriented Matroids'' (with Michel Las Vergnas, Bernd Sturmfels, N. White and Günter M. Ziegler), Cambridge University Press, 1993. Second Edition 1999, 560 pages. *'' Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups'' (with F. Brenti),

Graduate Texts in Mathematics Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM) () is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are yellow books of a standard size (with va ...

, Vol. 231, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005, 367 pages. *Chapter "Topological Methods" in ''Handbook of Combinatorics'', (eds. Ronald L. Graham, M. Grötschel and

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He ...

), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 1819–1872. *

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* 1947 births Living people 21st-century Swedish mathematicians Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Directors of the Mittag-Leffler Institute Stockholm University alumni Combinatorialists 20th-century Swedish mathematicians {{Sweden-scientist-stub