Ralph Faudree

Ralph Jasper Faudree Jr. ( born August 23, 1939 in Durant (Oklahoma) ) is an American mathematician who deals with combinatorics.

Faudree graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University ( Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics 1961) and Purdue University, where in 1963 he received his master's degree in mathematics and received his doctorate in 1964 at Eugene Schenkman ( subgroups of the multiplicative group of a division ring ). As a post - graduate student, he was instructor at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1966 he was assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. In 1970 he was associate professor at the University of Memphis, where in 1975 he received a full professorship. In 1983, he stood before the mathematics faculty. 1996 to 2001 he was dean, 2000-2001 Interim President and Provost from 2001.

He is particularly concerned with graph theory and Ramsey theory and worked a lot with Paul Erdős together (50 joint publications from 1976). In addition, he has published, among others, with Vera Sós, Béla Bollobás, Joel Spencer.

In 1980 he was a visiting professor at the University of Aberdeen in 1981 and a visiting scientist at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

In 2005 he was awarded the Euler Medal with Aviezri Fraenkel.