Paul A. Catlin
American mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Allen Catlin ((1948-06-25)June 25, 1948 – (1995-04-20)April 20, 1995) was a mathematician, professor of mathematics who worked in graph theory and number theory. He wrote a significant paper on the series of chromatic numbers and Brooks' theorem, titled Hajós graph coloring conjecture: variations and counterexamples.[1][2][3]
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Paul Allen Catlin | |
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Born | (1948-06-25)June 25, 1948 |
Died | April 20, 1995(1995-04-20) (aged 46) |
Alma mater | Ohio State University |
Known for | Graph theory Number theory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Thesis | Embedding subgraphs and coloring graphs under extremal degree conditions (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | G. Neil Robertson |
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