- Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős, also Pál Erdős, in English Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 - September 20, 1996), was an immensely prolific (and famously eccentric) Hungarian-born mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory.
- Béla Bollobás
Béla Bollobás is a leading Hungarian mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics and graph theory. His first doctorate was for work in discrete geometry in 1967, after which he spent a year in Moscow with Gelfand. After spending a year in Oxford he went to Cambridge, where in 1971 he received a Ph.D. in functional analysis. He is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- Daniel Kleitman
Daniel J. Kleitman is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, Genomics, and operations research. Kleitman received his PhD from Harvard University in 1958. Kleitman wrote papers with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1. He was a math advisor and extra in "Good Will Hunting." Since Minnie Driver appeared in "Good Will Hunting" and in "Sleepers" with Kevin Bacon, …
- Carl Pomerance
Carl Pomerance (born in 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is a well known number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 for his study that any odd perfect number N has at least 7 distinct prime factors. He immediately joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982. He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years, …
- Fan Chung
Fan Rong K Chung Graham (born October 9, 1949 in Kaohsiung), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and complex networks (see graph theory for the general article). She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, under the direction of Herbert Wilf. She is currently the Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics at the University of California, …
- Ralph Faudree
Ralph Faudree is a leading mathematician who specializes in combinatorics; specifically graph theory and Ramsey theory. He currently holds the position of Provost of The University of Memphis. He has published more than 150 mathematical papers on these topics together with such notable mathematicians as Bela Bollobas, Stefan Burr, Paul Erdos, Ron Gould, András Gyárfás, Brendan McKay, Cecil Rousseau, Richard Schelp, Miklós Simonovits, Joel Spencer, and Vera Sós.
- John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He has also contributed to many branches of recreational mathematics, notably the invention of the Game of Life (the cellular automaton, not the board game). Conway is currently professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
- Ronald Graham
Ronald Lewis Graham (born October 31, 1935) is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society with being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years"[1]. He has done important work in scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, and quasi-randomness.
- Yousef Alavi
Yousef Alavi is a mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and graph theory. He was a professor at Western Michigan University. His Erdős number is 1.
- Frank Harary
Frank Harary was a prolific American mathematician, who specialized in graph theory. Among the more than 700 scholarly articles Harary authored, two were co-authored with Paul Erdős, giving Harary an Erdős number of 1.
- András Gyárfás
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- Michael Golomb
Michael Golomb (born 1909) is an American mathematician and educator who is affiliated with Purdue University for over half a century. He was a student of Erhard Schmidt and Adolf Hammerstein, and received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1933. However, as a Jew, he had to leave Germany shortly afterwards to avoid Nazi persecution. After a short period in Zagreb in the former Yugoslavia, Michael Golomb arrived in the U.S. in 1939, …
- Cecil C. Rousseau
Cecil C. Rousseau is a mathematician and author who specializes in graph theory and combinatorics. He is a professor at The University of Memphis and former chair of the USAMO. He has an Erdős number of 1, and is among Erdős' top 10 co-authors. To his students and colleagues, he's known affectionately as C<sup>2</sup>R.
- Arthur Rubin
Arthur L. Rubin is an American mathematician who has earned a place among the five top-ranked undergraduate competitors (who are themselves not ranked against each other) in the William Lowell Putnam Competition four times (1970–73), a feat matched by only six other undergraduate students since the first competition in 1938. His mother was J. E. H. Rubin, Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University for over 35 years, and his father, H. Rubin, …
- Neil Sloane
Neil James Alexander Sloane is an Australian-U.S. mathematician. He studied at Cornell University under Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Lengths of cycle times in random neural networks". Sloane joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1968. He became an AT&T Fellow in 1998. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing.
- Dave Bayer
Dave Bayer is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University. He was math consultant for the film "A Beautiful Mind", and also acted in it as one of the "Pen Ceremony" professors. He is also one of few people to have both Erdős number and Bacon number.
- W. R.
William R. (Red) Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States Air Force veteran. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Citadel (1959), his Ph.D in Mathematics from Tulane University (1963), and his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (1976) in Athens, Georgia. After earning his J.D. he practiced law in Athens, …
- Brendan McKay
Brendan D. McKay (b. October 26, 1951 in Melbourne, Australia) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ANU (Australian National University). He has published extensively in combinatorics. One of his main contributions has been a practical algorithm for graph isomorphism and its software implementation NAUTY (No AUTomorphisms, Yes?). Further achievements include proving with Radziszowski that the Ramsey Number R(4,5)=25, …
- Noam Elkies
Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow. He won the 1982 competition at the age of sixteen years and four months, making him possibly the youngest Putnam Fellow in history. After graduating as valedictorian, he earned his Ph.D. under supervision of Benedict Gross and Barry Mazur at Harvard University.
- Eugene Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin (PhD) is an expert in the field of biotechnology. Credentials: Senior Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA MS (1978) and PhD (1983) in Molecular Biology from Department of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Research in Computational Biology in Institute of Poliomyelitis and Institute of Microbiology, Moscow (Russia) in 1985-1991.
- Diomidis Spinellis
Diomidis D. Spinellis is a Greek computer science academic and author of the book Code Reading. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout source code analyzer and refactoring browser, …
- Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron is a mathematician, based at Queen Mary, University of London. He specialises in Combinatorics and is joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal. He has an Erdős number of 1.
- Igor Pak
Igor Pak is an associate professor of mathematics at MIT, working in combinatorics and discrete probability. He is best known for his bijective proof of the hook-length formula for the number of Young tableaux, and his work on random walks. Pak has co-authored a paper on Markov chains with László Lovász, …
- Alexander S. Kechris
Alexander S. (Alekos) Kechris is a descriptive set theorist at Caltech. He has made major contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence relations. Kechris earned his Ph.D. in 1972 under the direction of Yiannis N. Moschovakis, with a dissertation entitled "Projective Ordinals and Countable Analytic Sets". His Erdős number is 2.
- Jonathan Partington
Jonathan R. Partington (born February 4, 1955 in Norwich, United Kingdom) is an English mathematician.
- Mark Overmars
Prof. dr. Mark Overmars ("Markus Hendrik Overmars" born 29 September 1958, Zeist) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of games programming known for his game development application Game Maker. He is the head of the "Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments" (GIVE) at the Utrecht University, the Netherlands. This research center concentrates on computational geometry and its application in areas like computer graphics, robotics, …
- Jeff Westbrook
Jeff Westbrook is an American TV writer best known for his work on "The Simpsons" and "Futurama". Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a successful algorithms researcher. After majoring in physics and history of science at Harvard University, he studied computer science with Robert Tarjan at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989 with a thesis entitled <i>Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms</i>.
- David Avis
David Michael Avis is a Canadian and British computer scientist and a professor in Computational Geometry and Applied Mathematics. He is currently a professor in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, in Montreal. Avis received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Stanford University. He has published more than 70 journal papers and articles. He has an Erdős number of one due to his collaboration with Paul Erdős.
- John Quiggin
John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956 in Adelaide) is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, there achieving bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and further completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded his PhD from the University of New England in 1988.
- Zhi-Wei Sun
Zhi-Wei Sun is a Chinese mathematician, working primarily on number theory, combinatorics, and group theory. Zhi-Wei Sun and his twin brother Zhi-Hong Sun proved a theorem about what are now known as the Wall-Sun-Sun primes that guided the search for counterexamples to Fermat's last theorem. In 2003, he presented a unified approach to three famous topics of Paul Erdős in combinatorial number theory: covering systems, restricted sumsets, …
- Michael Artin
Michael Artin is an American mathematician and a professor at MIT, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He is the son of Emil Artin. He was brought up in Indiana. In the early 1960s he spent time at the IHES in France, contributing to the SGA4 volumes of the Séminaire de géométrie algébrique, on topos theory and étale cohomology.
- Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine and a regular visiting member of the philosophy department at Stanford University. He has worked on problems in the philosophy of science, causation, decision theory, game theory, and the foundations of probability. Most recently, his work has focused on the evolution of social norms using evolutionary game theory.
- Donald G. Saari
Donald G. Saari (born March 1940 in Houghton, Michigan, USA) is the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1962 from Michigan Technological University, his Master of Science and PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University in 1964 and 1967, respectively. From 1968 to 2000, he served as assistant, …
- David J. Lipman
David J. Lipman is an American biologist who since 1989 has been the Director of NCBI (the National Center for Biotechnology Information) at the National Institutes of Health. NCBI is the home of GenBank, the world's largest DNA sequence database, and PubMed, one of the most heavily used sites in the world for the search and retrieval of biomedical information. Dr.
- Víctor Neumann-Lara
Víctor Neumann-Lara also Víctor Neumann was a Mexican mathematician, pioneer in the field of graph theory in Mexico. His work also covers general topology, game theory and combinatorics. He has an Erdős number of 2.
- Claude Crépeau
Dr. Claude Crépeau was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in 1962. He received a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal in 1986, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1990, working in the field of cryptography with Prof. Silvio Micali as his Ph.D. advisor and Gilles Brassard as his M.Sc advisor. He spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Université d'Orsay, and was a CNRS researcher at École Normale Supérieure from 1992 to 1995.
- John Selfridge
John L. Selfridge is an American mathematician who has contributed to the field of analytic number theory. He co-authored 14 papers with Paul Erdős (giving him an Erdős number of 1).
- Nina Bari
Nina Karlovna Bari was a Russian mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series. She was killed by a train in the Moscow Metro, and her colleagues speculated that she committed suicide, prompted by the death of her mentor Nikolai Luzin ten years earlier, a man who may have been her lover.
- John Mackey
John Mackey is an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1994 and is currently a lecturer and assistant department head at Carnegie Mellon University. His main contributions to mathematics have been his discoveries of many new bounds for Ramsey numbers. In 1994 he discovered new bounds for R(6, 6) through R(10, 10), and proved that 41<=R(5, 5)<=55, at the time a great feat.
- Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.
Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr. is a professor of computer science at Purdue University who coordinates the Cunningham project, a project to factor numbers of the form b<sup>n</sup> ± 1, since 1983. In 1980, Wagstaff coauthored with Paul Erdős a paper entitled "The Fractional Parts of the Bernoulli Numbers" in the Illinois Journal of Mathematics, giving him an Erdős number of 1. His son, Jonathan, plays amateur football for a reserve team at Werder Bremen.