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Prof. Günter M. Ziegler began gaining his higher education at the Ludwik and Maximilian University based in Munich, while his PhD title was obtained in 1987 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1995, he assumed the position of professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin, and in 2011, at the Free University of Berlin, where he has been the rector since 2018. He is a member of either the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech. Between 2006-2008, he held the position of the chairperson of the German Mathematical Society. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including but not limited to the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, a prestigious ERC grant, the Communicator Award, as well as the Scientific Award of the Mayor of Berlin.

First and foremost, Prof. Ziegler deals with discrete geometry, the theory of polyhedra, as well as with algebraic and topological methods in combinatorics and optimisation problems. With full eagerness, he is involved in popularising mathematics as an interesting and varied discipline. In 2008, Professor initiated the Year of Mathematics, while these days, he continues his popularisation-oriented activities, among others, at the media office of the German Mathematical Society. On top of the foregoing, he has published many books and essays, including Das Buch der Beweise (Proofs from the BOOK), co-authored by Martin Aigner, translated into fourteen languages. This book is dedicated to Paul Erdos - the mathematician, and contains 32 different proofs of theorems derived from different areas of mathematics.