Background
Hammer was born in Timișoara, Romania, into a Hungarian speaking Jewish family.
mathematician university professor
Hammer was born in Timișoara, Romania, into a Hungarian speaking Jewish family.
University of Bucharest.
He contributed to the fields of operations research and applied discrete mathematics through the study of pseudo-Boolean functions and their connections to graph theory and data mining. He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Bucharest, earning a diploma in 1958 and a doctorate in 1965 under the supervision of Grigore Moisil. Hammer taught at the Technion from 1967 to 1979, at McGill University in Canada from 1969 to 1972, at the University of Waterloo from 1972 to 1983, and finally at Rutgers University in New Jersey for the remainder of his career.
He was killed in a car accident on December 27, 2006.
Hammer founded the Rutgers University Center for Operations Research, and created and edited the journals Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discrete Optimization, Annals of Discrete Mathematics, Annals of Operations Research, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Monographs on Discrete Mathematics and Applications.
In 1966, as a recent doctorate, Hammer won the "Gheorghe "Țițeica" prize of the Romanian Academy of Science. He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1974. In 1986 he was given his first honorary doctorate, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he was given two more, by the University of Rome Louisiana Sapienza in 1998 and the University of Liège in 1999. He also won the Euler Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications in 1999, and was a founding fellow of the institute.
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
