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Ronald C. Read
British mathematician (1924-2019) · Canada · On the map · Academics · Died at 94
Ronald Cedric Read was a British mathematician, latterly a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He published many books and papers, primarily on enumeration of graphs, graph isomorphism, chromatic polynomials, and particularly, the use of computers in graph-theoretical research.
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Read's conjecture was proved after more than 40 years by June Huh in 2009. A majority of Read's later work was done in Waterloo. Read received his Ph.D. (1959) in graph theory from the University of London.
