Carsten Thomassen (mathematician)
Carsten Thomassen (born August 22, 1948 in Grindsted ) is a Danish mathematician who deals with graph theory.
Thomassen studied at the University of Aarhus (candidate title 1972 with Gabriel Dirac ) and received his doctorate in 1976 at the University of Waterloo with Daniel Younger ( Paths and cycles in graphs ). He was an assistant in Aarhus, from 1972 assistant professor and from 1976 lecturer.
Since 1981 he has been Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby .
From 1994 to 2001 he was also adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo and he was visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania , the University of Otago , the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge (2008), the Louisiana State University , the University of Bielefeld , the University of Claude Bernard in Lyon and the TU Chemnitz .
From 1979 he was co-editor and from 1989 managing editor of the Journal of Graph Theory. Since 2002 he has been editor of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. In 1990 he became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and since 1995 Knight of the Order of Dannebrog . In 1993 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award .
In 1990 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto ( Graphs, random walks and electric networks )
Fonts
- with Bojan Mohar : Graphs on surfaces , Johns Hopkins University Press 2001
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carsten Thomassen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ For Thomassen The Jordan-Schoenflies Theorem and the classification of surfaces , American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 99, 1992, pp. 116-130
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Thomassen, Carsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grindsted |