Ron Aharoni


Ron Aharoni is an Israeli mathematician, working in finite and infinite combinatorics. Aharoni is a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1979. With Nash-Williams and Shelah he generalized Hall's marriage theorem by obtaining the right transfinite conditions for infinite bipartite graphs. He subsequently proved the appropriate versions of the Kőnig theorem and the Menger theorem for infinite graphs.
Aharoni is the author of several nonspecialist books; the most successful is Arithmetic for Parents, a book helping parents and elementary school teachers in teaching basic mathematics. He also wrote a book on the connections between Mathematics, poetry and beauty and on philosophy, The Cat That is not There. His book, "Man detaches meaning", is on a mechanism common to jokes and poetry. His last to date book is , which binds together mathematics, philosophy and the secrets of humor.

Books

1. Arithmetic for Parents, A book for grownups on children's mathematics, Schocken Press 2004
2. Mathematics, poetry and beauty, Hakibutz Hameuchad 2008.
3. The cat that is not there - a non-philosophical book on philosophy, Magness Press, 2009.
4. Man detaches meaning - poems, jokes and in between, Hakibutz Hameuchad 2011.
5. , World Scientific Publishing 2014.
6. , World Scientific Publishing 2015
7. , World Scientific Publishing 2016.