Thomas Zaslavsky from Manhattan

Manhattan

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 has been a professor of mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 at the Binghamton University

Binghamton University

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, New York

New York

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 since 1985. He has published papers in combinatorial mathematics, algebra

Algebra

Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning the study of the rules of operations and relations, and the constructions and concepts arising from them, including terms, polynomials, equations and algebraic structures...

 and analysis. His work in combinatorics include hyperplane arrangement, matroid theory, graph theory

Graph theory

In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...

, coding theory

Coding theory

Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their fitness for a specific application. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error-correction and more recently also for network coding...

, lattice point counting, and Sperner theory

Sperner family

In combinatorics, a Sperner family , named in honor of Emanuel Sperner, is a set system in which no element is contained in another. Formally,...

.

Zaslavsky's mother Claudia Zaslavsky

Claudia Zaslavsky

Claudia Zaslavsky was an American educator and ethnomathematician. She advanced the study of the links between mathematics and world cultures, especially with her pioneering book Africa Counts, that extended to Africa the work of Karl Menninger about mathematics in ordinary life in other parts of...

 was a high school mathematics teacher at New York; his father Sam Zaslavsky from Manhattan

Manhattan

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 was an electrical engineer. Thomas Zaslavsky graduated from City College of New York

City College of New York

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 and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from M.I.T. in 1974.

Select publications

• "Faces of a hyperplane arrangement enumerated by ideal dimension, with application to plane, plaids, and Shi". Geom. Dedicata, 98 (2003), 63–80
• Book – Facing up to arrangements: face-count formulas for partitions of space by ...‎ Thomas Zaslavsky, Mathematics, 1975, 102 pages