Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:39:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Janos Pach <pach@CIMS.nyu.edu>
To: grunbaum@math.washington.edu
Subject: update
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        Dear Branko:

We would like to keep you updated about the status of the
Festschrift in honor of Eli Goodman and Ricky Pollack,
initiated by S. Basu and N. Prabhu. We negotiate with
Springer-Verlag about publishing the Festschrift as a
separate volume containing survey articles and original
research papers of very high quality. The standards for
acceptance will be at least as high as those of the journal
Discrete and Computational Geometry, of which Eli and Ricky
have been founding editors-in-chief for the past sixteen
years. All submitted papers will be subject to very
thorough refereeing by at least two independent experts.

We would like to invite you again to contribute to the
Festschrift as soon as possible but not later than September 1,
2001. To help us in our preparations and in our negotiations
with the publisher, we would appreciate if you could let us know
  (a) whether you intend to submit a paper, and if yes,
  (b) provide us with its tentative title and approximate length.
If you have already responded to Basu or Prabhu concerning
(a), we would like to thank you for your kind reply, and ask
you to send the additional information in (b).

        We hope to hear from you soon!
        Best regards,

      Boris Aronov   Saugata Basu   Janos Pach   Micha Sharir


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To: grunbaum@math.washington.edu pach@CIMS.nyu.edu
Subject: Re:  update

Dear Janos:

Thank you for your message concerning the Goodman-Pollack
Festschrift.  I shall be happy to submit a paper for consideration for
inclusion in that volume.  The paper I have in mind would be entitled
"Noble polyhedra", and be 10 to 12 pages in print.

Some explanations: By "noble" I mean the polyhedra that are next kin
to the regular ones; their symmetry group acts transitively on the
faces as well as on the vertices.  The paper will survey the history
of these polyhedra which go back to E. Hess in the 1870's, explain
how the absence of appropriate definitions of general polyhedra was
one of the main reasons their theory (and the theory of polyhedra in
3-space in general) never got anywhere in particular, provide such
definitions, discuss their relevance to various classes of polyhedra,
and finally present a survey of the known noble polyhedra.

With best wishes,

BrankoFrom: Janos Pach <pach@CIMS.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: update
To: grunbaum@math.washington.edu (Branko Grunbaum)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:08:06 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <200103221603.f2MG30g69428@goedel2.math.washington.edu> from "Branko Grunbaum" at Mar 22
, 2001 08:03:00 AM
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        Dear Branko!
Thanks a lot! The topic sounds great.
        Cheers, Janos.