Building a Bridge III:from Problems of Mathematical Olympiads to Open Problems of Mathematics

摘要

Born and educated in Moscow, Alexander Soifer has for 29 years been a Professor at the University of Colorado, teaching math, and art and film history. He has written six books and some 200 articles, including The Mathematical Coloring Book, Springer, September 2008. In fact, Springer has contracted Soifer for seven books, five of which are coming out shortly and two are to be written in 2009-10. He founded and for 25 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 was Secretary of WFNMC (1996-2008), and a recipient of the Paul Erdos Award (2006). Soifer was the founding editor of the research quarterly GeoBmrabniknoa Gtorruincbsa u(1m9,9 H1-epirkeos eHnta)r,b wohrtohs,e P oetthere Dr .e dJoithonrss oinnc Jlru.d, ea nRdo Jnaanldo sL P. aGcrha.ham, Paul Erdos was an editor and active author of this journal. Soifer's Erdos number is I.