Robin Thomas (mathematician)
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Robin Thomas (August 22, 1962 – March 26, 2020) was a mathematician working in graph theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Robin Thomas | |
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| Born | August 22, 1962[1] Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | March 26, 2020 (aged 57)[2] |
| Alma mater | Charles University |
| Awards | Fulkerson Prize Karel Janeček Foundation Neuron Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaroslav Nešetřil |
Thomas received his doctorate in 1985 from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), under the supervision of Jaroslav Nešetřil.[3] He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1989, and became a Regents' Professor there,[4][5] briefly serving as the department Chair.
Personal life
Thomas was married to Icelandic operations researcher Sigrún Andradóttir, also a professor at Georgia Tech.[6]
On March 26, 2020, he died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at the age of 57 after 12 years of struggle with the illness.[2][7]
Awards
Thomas was awarded the Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in discrete mathematics twice,[8] in 1994 as co-author of a paper on the Hadwiger conjecture,[9] and in 2009 for the proof of the strong perfect graph theorem.[10] In 2011, he was awarded the Karel Janeček Foundation Neuron Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics.[11] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[12] He was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018.[13] The January 2023 issue of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B was a tribute to his work.[14]
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