Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of books on mathematical puzzles and of more than 130 research papers in mathematicsPublication list from Winkler's home page at Dartmouth. and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation.Information listed on Peter Winkler's homepage at Dartmouth. His research areas include discrete mathematics, theory of computation and probability theory. He is currently the William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College.Dartmouth mathematics faculty listing.
Education and career
Peter Winkler studied mathematics at Harvard University and later received his PhD in 1975 from Yale University under the supervision of Angus McIntyre.. He has also served as an assistant professor at Stanford, full professor and chair at Emory and as a mathematics research director at Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. He was visiting professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Puzzle books
Winkler has published three books on mathematical puzzles: Mathematical Puzzles: A connoisseur's collectionBaylis, John. Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur’s Collection, by Peter Winkler. The Mathematical Gazette 90, no. 517 (2006): 186–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3621462Gorini, Catherine A. Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur’s Collection, by Peter Winkler. The Mathematics Teacher 98, no. 5 (2004): 363–363. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27971734 (A K Peters, 2004, , translated to German and Russian) Mathematical Mind-BendersFischer, Joyce. Mathematical Mind-Benders, by Peter Winkler. The Mathematics Teacher 102, no. 3 (2008): 238–39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20876331 (A K Peters, 2007, ) Mathematical Puzzles (A K Peters, 2021, ).
Winkler is widely considered to be a pre eminent scholar in this domain. He was the Visiting Distinguished Chair for Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), gave topical talks at the Gathering 4 Gardner conferences, and wrote novel papers related to some of these puzzles.
Bridge at the Enigma Club
Winkler's book Bridge at the Enigma ClubThe Bridge World Bookstore Bridge at the Enigma Club by Peter Winkler was a runner up for the 2011 Master Point Press Book Of The Year award.The 2011 Master Point Press Book Of The Year Award 2014 IPBA Handbook, p. 176
Recognition
In 2011, Winkler received the David P. Robbins Prize of the Mathematical Association of America as coauthor of one of two papers"Overhang", American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 116, January 2009 (Online) "Maximum Overhang", American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 116, December 2009 (Online) in the American Mathematical Monthly.
Paul Erdős anecdote
According to The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, a biography of Paul Erdős, he attended the bar mitzvah celebration for Peter Winkler's twins, and Winkler's mother-in-law tried to throw Erdős out:
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