Fan Chung
Fan Rong King Chung Graham , known as a mathematician as Fan Chung , ( Chinese 金芳蓉 , Pinyin Jīn Fāngróng ; born October 9, 1949 in Kaohsiung ) is an American mathematician who deals with graph theory.
Chung grew up as the daughter of an engineer in Taiwan . She studied at the University of Pennsylvania , where she received her PhD in 1974 under Herbert Wilf ( Ramsey Numbers in Multi-Colors ). She then worked at Bell Laboratories for twenty years . In 1994 she became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1998 Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego .
It deals with graph theory (especially the spectrum of graphs), discrete geometry, mathematics of communication networks and algorithms.
In 1990 she received the Allendoerfer Award for her article with Ronald Graham and Martin Gardner Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard . In 1994 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ( Eigenvalues of Graphs ). In 2009 she was a Noether Lecturer . She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society , and in 1998 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2017 she was awarded the Euler Medal by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA) .
She has been married twice and has two children. From 1983 until his death in 2020 she was married to the mathematician Ronald Graham . Like her husband, she published with Paul Erdős (has the Erdős number 1) and was the author of a book with him about the mathematics of Erdős.
Fonts
- with Ronald Graham : Erdős on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved Problems. AK Peters, 1998, ISBN 1-56881-079-2 .
- Spectral Graph Theory. CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, No. 92, American Mathematical Society, 1997, ISBN 0-8218-0315-8 .
Web links
- Fan Chung Graham homepage
- Fan Chung in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Fan Chung - Agnes Scott College biography by Lawrence H. Riddle, December 8, 2010.
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Fan Rong K Chung Graham. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . (English)
- Steve Butler: The Mathematical Life of Fan Chung . (PDF) In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society . 67, No. 3, March 2020, pp. 327-335. (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fan K. Chung, Martin Gardner, Ronald L. Graham: Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard. Math. Magazine, Vol. 62, 1989, pp. 83-96, Allendoerfer Awards website.
- ^ The ICA Medals. Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, accessed June 11, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chung, fan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graham, Fan Chung; Graham, Fan-Rong King Chung |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaohsiung |