Branko Grünbaum

This was our last trip together to Magnuson Park. We miss our meetings, Ethiopian meals together and his wits and sense of humor.
Sharon & Moshe

Branko was my teacher, mentor, mathematical father and close friend. Our close relationship lasted only 55 years. Sharon and I enjoyed our many visits with Zdenka and Branko, we were fascinated by their life stories, shared experiences, wits and sense of humor. After Zdenka passed away in 2015, we continued visiting Branko enjoying walks together, his favorite Ethiopian food and his courageous dealing with end-of-life process. One day in April 2018, when I came to visit Branko, I asked him ma...

Branko Grünbaum was one of my mathematical heroes. When I was in college I fell in love with his book "Tilings and Patterns" (with Shephard), which is still, 30 years later, my favorite math book. He was very helpful and generous with his time in answering the naive questions I asked him in an email when I was applying to graduate schools, and later when I occasionally emailed him as a colleague. And I am still telling my graduate students to read his Regular Polytopes book...

I'm very sorry to hear that Branko Grünbaum is no longer with us. Last year I still had a fruitful and enjoyable mail discussion with him about a mathematical question. I will miss both his humour and his brilliance.


With thankfulness,

Branko Grunbaum has been an inspiration to me. I met Branko & Vic as a student at the UW in the late 1980s. Branko was brilliant, internationally renowned, so prolific -- and yet so humble and approachable. He always put a lot of effort into teaching and into his presentations. He cheerfully led us students on excursions through high-dimensions, sharing their beauty and their illusions. Branko shared his love of combinatorics by making it accessible.

Two other indelible memories...

I've long admired both Zdenka and Branko Grunbaum from the stories I've heard about their lives and their relationships with their children and grandchildren. May their memory be a blessing.

With love to Rami, Galya, Mara, Sasha, and Roxane.

Beth, Mark, and Jess

I remember Branko as a kind and brilliant soul. He came to Victoria as the external examiner on three of my student's Master's and PhD. theses; theses that were about an area of enquiry that he initiated, the mathematical study of Venn diagrams. He was so accommodating! For the last defense he was recovering from surgery and had to check with doctors about the potentially bumpy ferry ride and was chugging some sort of liquid food instead of having proper meals. And he took with him an audio...

When my father Victor Klee died I had an overwhelming amount of my father's mathematical materials to sort through and Branko was invaluable in that process. His patience, kindness, knowledge, and generosity in helping me was much appreciated.