Predicting the Future: Four Classic Conjectures of Mathematics

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Born and educated in Moscow, Alexander Soifer has for 33 years been a Professor at the University of Colorado, teaching math, and art and film history. He has published over 200 articles, and a good number of books. In the past 3 years, 6 of his books have appeared in Springer: The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators; Mathematics as Problem Solving; How Does One Cut a Triangle?; Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics; Ramsey Theory Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; and Colorado Mathematical Olympiad and Further Explorations. He has founded and for 29 years ran the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad. Soifer has also served on the Soviet Union Math Olympiad (1970-1973) and USA Math Olympiad (1996-2005). He has been Secretary of WFNMC (1996-2008), and Senior Vice President of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions (2008-2012); from 2012 he has been the president of the WFNMC. He is a recipient of the Federation's Paul Erd?s Award (2006). Soifer's Erd?s number is 1.