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Frank Harary

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Frank Harary · Science & Medicine

What

A founder of modern graph theory

When

1921, New York City, United States — 2005, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Frank Harary is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — A founder of modern graph theory

How & why

Harary was a founder of modern graph theory whose 1969 textbook 'Graph Theory' became the standard reference and helped make the field a coherent discipline; he wrote hundreds of papers and applied graphs across the sciences. He spent much of his career at the University of Michigan and later New Mexico State University. He was born to a Jewish immigrant family in New York.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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A founder of modern graph theory

1921

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics