Jiri Matousek
A disclaimer concerning applications for internships etc. (please read this before e-mailing me in such matters)
Scientific writings
Books
- Invitation
to Discrete Mathematics
(with Jaroslav Nesetril, Oxford University Press 1998);
errata.
A second edition, with two new chapters
and several new sections, published by OUP in November 2008.
- German edition (Springer),
Diskrete Mathematik (Eine Entdeckungsreise),
translated by Hans Mielke,
and errata to it.
A second edition with two new chapters
and several new sections published in fall 2007.
- Japanese edition
translated by Seiya Negami and Atsuhiro Nakamoto
and published by
Springer Tokyo.
For errata please consult the
list for the German edition; both translations
are from the same source and so the errors should be similar,
although, of course, the page numbers differ.
- French edition (Springer 2004),
Introduction aux mathématiques discrétes,
translated by Delphine Hachez.
For errata, too, please consult the
list for the German edition (no offence to the French
national feelings intended), although a few of the mistakes
have been corrected.
- Spanish edition, Invitacion a la matematica discreta,
translated by Anna S. Llado, to be published by Editorial Reverte.
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Italian and Chinese editions in preparation.
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Geometric
Discrepancy (An Illustrated Guide)
(Springer 1999), publisher's page Corrected and updated 2nd printing should
appear by the end of 2009.
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Lectures on Discrete Geometry (Springer, May 2002),
errata. Japanese translation, by Yoshio Okamoto,
was published by Springer Tokyo in 2005. Here is
Chapter 15,
Embedding finite metric spaces into normed
spaces, revised and extended in September 2005
to reflect some of
the exciciting developments in last 3 years (it appears
in the Japanese edition). Here is the updated
bibliography.
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Using the Borsuk-Ulam theorem (Lectures on topological methods
in combinatorics and geometry) (Springer, April 2003),
corrected and updated 2nd printing in fall 2007.
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Understanding and using linear programming
with Bernd G"artner, Springer, October 2006.
Other on-line materials
A note on publishing in journals
Currently I'm trying to prefer reasonably
priced mathematical journals and, in particular, open-access (i.e.,
zero price) journals - in submitting my papers
and also in deciding which refereeing and editorial
jobs to accept. Here is a
survey of prices of math journals (sorted by
price per page).
I am affiliated with
Department
of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Prague
Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI)
Phone: (+420) 2 2191 4290
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Mailing address:
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Department of Applied Mathematics
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Malostranske namesti 25
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118 00 Praha 1
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Czech Republic
A quotation
Nicholas was not to be of the party; he was in disgrace. Only that morning
he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous
ground that there was a frog in it. Older and wiser and better people had
told him that there could not possibly be a frog in his bread-and-milk
and that he was not to talk nonsense; he continued, nevertheless, to talk
what seemed the veriest nonsense, and described with much detail the colourations
and markings of the alleged frog. The dramatic part of the incident was
that there really was a frog in Nicholas' basin of bread-and-milk; he had
put it there himself, so he felt entitled to know something about it. The
sin of taking a frog from the garden and putting it into a bowl of wholesome
bread-and-milk was enlarged on at great length, but the fact that stood
out clearest in the whole affair, as it presented itself to the mind of
Nicholas, was that the older, wiser, and better people had been proved
to be profoundly in error in matters about which they had expressed the
utmost assurance.
-- H. H. Munro (Saki), in: The Best of Saki, Pan Books, London 1976
For electronic correspondence: "matousek" then the at sign
and then kam mff cuni cz, separated by dots, of course.