Dan Steven Archdeacon (1954–2015) was an American graph theorist specializing in topological graph theory, who served for many years as a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Vermont.
Archdeacon was born on May 11, 1954, in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Centerville, Ohio. He did his undergraduate studies at Earlham College, graduating in 1975. He completed his Ph.D. in 1980 from Ohio State University, under the supervision of Henry Hatfield Glover, with a dissertation proving an analogue of Kuratowski's theorem for the projective plane. He took a position at the University of Vermont in 1982, joining fellow graph theorist and Ohio State graduate Jeff Dinitz, after previously working as an instructor at the University of Kansas. He died of cancer on February 18, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont.
In 2003–2004, the University of Vermont named him as University Scholar. A special issue of the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics was published in his honor in 2017.
References
- ^ Bonnington, C. Paul; Dinitz, Jeff; Širáň, Jozef (2017), "Special issue in honour of Dan S. Archdeacon: guest editorial" (PDF), Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 67: 65–76, MR 3607813
- ^ Bokal, Drago; Mohar, Bojan; Širáň, Jozef (2017), "Dan Archdeacon (11 May 1954 to 18 February 2015)", News and Photos, Ars Mathematica Contemporanea, 12 (1), MR 3647300
- ^ "Mathematics Professor Dan Archdeacon Dies After 33-Year Career at UVM", University Communications, University of Vermont, February 20, 2015, retrieved 2017-08-03
- Dan Archdeacon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links
- Dan Archdeacon publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1954 births
- 2015 deaths
- People from Dayton, Ohio
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Graph theorists
- Earlham College alumni
- Ohio State University Graduate School alumni
- University of Kansas faculty
- University of Vermont faculty
- Mathematicians from Ohio
- Deaths from cancer in Vermont