Ralph Faudree

Ralph Jasper Faudree Jr. (born August 23, 1939 in Durant , Oklahoma , † January 13, 2015 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with combinatorics .

Faudree studied at Oklahoma Baptist University ( Bachelor of Mathematics and Physics in 1961) and Purdue University , where he received his Masters degree in Mathematics in 1963 and his PhD in 1964 under Eugene Schenkman ( Subgroups of the multiplicative group of a division ring ). As a post-graduate student , he was an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1966 he was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1970 he became an associate professor at the University of Memphis , where he received a full professorship in 1975. From 1983 he headed the mathematics faculty. From 1996 to 2001 he was Dean, 2000-2001 Interim President and from 2001 Provost .

He was particularly concerned with graph theory and Ramsey theory and worked a lot with Paul Erdős (50 joint publications since 1976). He has also published with Vera T. Sós , Béla Bollobás and Joel H. Spencer, among others .

In 1980 he was visiting professor at the University of Aberdeen and in 1981 visiting scholar at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. In 2005 he received the Euler Medal with Aviezri Fraenkel .

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SURNAME	Faudree, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Faudree, Ralph Jasper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Durant , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 2015