Ronald Graham

American mathematician (1935-2020) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 84

Ronald Lewis Graham was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years".

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2020Died6 July 20202013Euler Book PrizeAwardFellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward2009Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsAward2003Steele Prize for Lifetime AchievementAward2001Josiah Willard Gibbs LectureshipAward1999ACM FellowAward1993Euler MedalAward1935Born31 October 1935

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Ronald Graham, his wife Fan Chung, and Paul Erdős, Japan 1986

The Graham scan algorithm for convex hulls

Ronald Graham juggling a four-ball fountain (1986)

Awards

Euler Book Prize2013

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society2013

Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2009

Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement2003

Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship2001

ACM Fellow1999

Euler Medal1993

George Pólya Prize

Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards

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He was president of both the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, and his honors included the Leroy P. Steele Prize for lifetime achievement and election to the National Academy of Sciences.

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United States