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Alan Hoffman
American mathematician (1924-2021) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 96
Alan Jerome Hoffman was an American mathematician and IBM Fellow emeritus, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was the founding editor of the journal Linear Algebra and its Applications, and held several patents.
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He contributed to combinatorial optimization and the eigenvalue theory of graphs. Hoffman and Robert Singleton constructed the Hoffman-Singleton graph, which is the unique Moore graph of degree 7 and diameter 2.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1924 to 2021 · aged 96
