Frank Harary

Frank Harary ( born March 11, 1921 in New York City; † January 4, 2005 in Las Cruces, New Mexico) was an American mathematician whose work area was to graph theory and its applications.

Life

Frank Harary grew up in New York, he was the oldest child of Jewish immigrants from Palestine and Syria. He studied at Brooklyn College in New York, where he Bachelor 1941 and 1945 the master acquired. He received his doctorate in 1948, then of the University of California, Berkeley. He then worked from 1948 to 1986 at the University of Michigan and finally from 1987 until his death in 2005 at the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. He had six children, two of whom died before his own death.

Work

Frank Harary worked mainly on graph theoretical problems and in particular to their applications in such diverse disciplines as anthropology, biology, chemistry, computer science, geography, linguistics, music, physics, political science, psychology and social sciences. He was known for his extensive collaborations with other researchers around the world and the resulting travel. He has published over 700 scientific articles and about 300 of these he co-authored with a total of 288 different authors, but he traveled for collaborations and lectures on 87 different countries. He wrote eight books, his 1969 published book Graph Theory is considered to be much cited standard work. He also founded the Journal of Combinatorial Theory ( 1966) and the Journal of Graph Theory (1977 ) two journals. He is regarded by many as one of the pioneers of modern graph theory and its applications, giving him the nickname Mr. graph theory earned among colleagues.