ALEXANDER SOIFER

'Alexander Soifer' is a mathematics author. His works include books such as:
How does one cut a triangle (Alexander Soifer)
Mathematics as Problem Solving (Alexander Soifer)
Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics (Alexander Soifer)
The following book has been in the works for 17 years, but should be submitted to its publisher (Springer) by mid 2007:
[Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators (Alexander Soifer)] http://www.uccs.edu/~asoifer/books/book5.htm
Every spring, Soifer, along with other mathematics colleagues, sponsor the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Soifer compiles (and writes some of) the problems for the contest.
Soifer has been a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado since 1979. He was visiting fellow at Princeton University 2002-2004, and is now, 2006-2007.

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Trivia

Soifer's Erdos number is 1.
In July 2006 at the University of Cambridge, Alexander Soifer was presented with Paul Erdos" Award" by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions

References

Mathematics as Problem Solving (Alexander Soifer) http://www.uccs.edu/~asoifer/books/book1.htm
How does one cut a triangle (Alexander Soifer) http://www.uccs.edu/~asoifer/books/book2.htm
[Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics (V. G. Boltyanski and Alexander Soifer)] http://www.uccs.edu/~asoifer/books/book3.htm
[Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The First Ten Years and Further Explorations (Alexander Soifer)] http://www.uccs.edu/~asoifer/books/book4.htm
You can find quotations from many journal reviews of these books at http://www.uccs.edu/~asoifer/publications.htm