Frank Harary

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Klaus Wagner (right) and Frank Harary in Oberwolfach, 1972

Frank Harary (born March 11, 1921 in New York City , † January 4, 2005 in Las Cruces , New Mexico ) was an American mathematician whose field of work was graph theory and its applications.

Life

Frank Harary grew up in New York and was the oldest child of Jewish immigrants from Palestine and Syria. He first studied at Brooklyn College in New York, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1941 and his master's degree in 1945. He received his doctorate in 1948 from the University of California, Berkeley . He then worked from 1948 to 1986 at the University of Michigan and finally from 1987 until his death in 2005 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. He had six children, two of whom died before his own death.

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Frank Harary 2001 in New Mexico

Frank Harary mainly worked on graph theory questions and especially on their applications in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, biology, chemistry, computer science, geography, linguistics, musicology, physics, political science, psychology and social sciences. He was known for his extensive collaborations with other researchers around the world and the resulting travel. He published over 700 scientific articles and wrote about 300 of these together with a total of 288 authors, traveling to 87 different countries for collaborations and lectures. He wrote eight books, his 1969 work Graph Theory is a much-cited standard work. He also founded two journals, the Journal of Combinatorial Theory (1966) and the Journal of Graph Theory (1977). Many consider him to be one of the pioneers of modern graph theory and its applications, which earned him the nickname Mr. graph theory among colleagues .

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SURNAME Harary, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2005
Place of death Las Cruces , New Mexico