John Howard Smith

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John Howard Smith is an American mathematician who is also a retired professor of mathematics at Boston College . He received his Ph.D . from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 under the supervision of Kenkichi Iwasawa .

In voting theory, it is known for the so-called Smith set, the smallest non-empty set of candidates, so that in every pairwise comparison (election / runoff with two candidates) between a member and a non-member, the member is always the winner according to the majority rule, and for the Smith criterion , a characteristic of certain electoral systems where the winner is guaranteed to belong to the Smith set. He also made contributions to spectral graph theory and additive number theory .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Math Department - Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences - Boston College. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ John Smith - The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Smith, John Howard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, John; Smith, John H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century