| 词条 | Peter McMullen |
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| name = Peter McMullen | birth_date = {{birth date and age |1942|05|11|df=yes}} | nationality = British | fields = Discrete geometry | workplaces = Western Washington University (1968-1969) University College London | alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge | known_for = Upper bound theorem, McMullen problem }}Peter McMullen (born 11 May 1942)[1] is a British mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at University College London.[2] Education and careerMcMullen earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge, and taught at Western Washington University from 1968 to 1969.[3] ContributionsHe is known for his work in polyhedral combinatorics and discrete geometry, and in particular for proving what was then called the upper bound conjecture and now is the upper bound theorem. This result states that cyclic polytopes have the maximum possible number of faces among all polytopes with a given dimension and number of vertices.[4] McMullen also formulated the g-conjecture, later the g-theorem of Louis Billera, Carl W. Lee, and Richard P. Stanley, characterizing the f-vectors of simplicial spheres.[5] Awards and honoursMcMullen was invited to speak at the 1974 International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver; his contribution there had the title Metrical and combinatorial properties of convex polytopes.[6] He was elected as a foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2006.[7] In 2012 he became an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8] Selected publications
| last = McMullen | first = P. | journal = Mathematika | mr = 0283691 | pages = 179–184 | title = The maximum numbers of faces of a convex polytope | volume = 17 | year = 1970 | doi=10.1112/s0025579300002850}}.
| last = McMullen | first = Peter | author-mask = 2 | issue = 2 | journal = Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | mr = 0394436 | pages = 247–261 | title = Non-linear angle-sum relations for polyhedral cones and polytopes | volume = 78 | year = 1975 | doi=10.1017/s0305004100051665}}.
| last = McMullen | first = Peter | author-mask = 2 | doi = 10.1007/BF01244313 | issue = 2 | journal = Inventiones Mathematicae | mr = 1228132 | pages = 419–444 | title = On simple polytopes | volume = 113 | year = 1993}}.
| last1 = McMullen | first1 = Peter | author-mask = 2 | last2 = Schneider | first2 = Rolf | contribution = Valuations on convex bodies | location = Basel | mr = 731112 | pages = 170–247 | publisher = Birkhäuser | title = Convexity and its applications | year = 1983}}. Updated as "Valuations and dissections" (by McMullen alone) in Handbook of convex geometry (1993), {{mr|1243000}}.
| last1 = McMullen | first1 = Peter | author-mask = 2 | last2 = Schulte | first2 = Egon | author2-link = Egon Schulte | doi = 10.1017/CBO9780511546686 | isbn = 0-521-81496-0 | location = Cambridge | mr = 1965665 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | series = Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications | title = Abstract regular polytopes | volume = 92 | year = 2002}}. See also
References1. ^Peter McMullen, Peter M. Gruber, retrieved 2013-11-03. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:McMullen, Peter}}2. ^[https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=PMCMU56 UCL IRIS information system], accessed 2013-11-03. 3. ^Peter McMullen Collection, 1967-1968, Special Collections, Wilson Library, Western Washington University, retrieved from worldcat.org 2013-11-03. 4. ^{{citation|title=Lectures on Polytopes|volume=152|series=Graduate Texts in Mathematics|first=Günter M.|last=Ziegler|authorlink=Günter M. Ziegler|publisher=Springer|year=1995|isbn=9780387943657|page=254|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xd25TXSSUcgC&pg=PA254|quotation=Finally, in 1970 McMullen gave a complete proof of the upper-bound conjecture – since then it has been known as the upper bound theorem. McMullen's proof is amazingly simple and elegant, combining to key tools: shellability and h-vectors.}} 5. ^{{citation | last = Gruber | first = Peter M. | isbn = 978-3-540-71132-2 | location = Berlin | mr = 2335496 | page = 265 | publisher = Springer | series = Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences] | title = Convex and discrete geometry | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bSZKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA265 | volume = 336 | year = 2007|quotation=The problem of characterizing the f-vectors of onvex polytopes is ... far from a solution, but there are important contributions towards it. For simplicial convex polytopes a characterization was proposed by McMullen in the form of his celebrated g-conjecture. The g-conjecture was proved by Billera and Lee and Stanley}}. 6. ^ICM 1974 proceedings. 7. ^[https://archive.is/20131104104357/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/people/june_2006 Awards, Appointments, Elections & Honours], University College London, June 2006, retrieved 2013-11-03. 8. ^List of AMS fellows, retrieved 2013-11-03. 10 : 1942 births|Living people|20th-century British mathematicians|21st-century British mathematicians|Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge|Western Washington University faculty|Academics of University College London|Fellows of the American Mathematical Society|Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences|Geometers |
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