Richard Pollack

Richard M. Pollack (January 25, 1935 – September 18, 2018 ) was an American geometer who spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he was Professor Emeritus until his death.

Contributions In combinatorics, Pollack published several papers with Paul Erdős and János Pach.

Pollack also published papers in discrete geometry. His work with Jacob E. Goodman includes the first nontrivial bounds on the number of order types and polytopes,

In real algebraic geometry, Pollack wrote a series of papers with Saugata Basu and Marie-Françoise Roy,

Awards and honors In 2003, a collection of original research papers in discrete and computational geometry entitled Discrete and Computational Geometry: The Goodman–Pollack Festschrift was published as a tribute to Jacob E. Goodman and Richard Pollack on the occasion of their 2/3 × 100 birthdays.

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

A special memorial 556-page issue of Discrete & Computational Geometry for Pollack was published in October 2020.