Judith Q. Longyear

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Judith Q. Longyear
Born20 September 1938
Died13 December 1995 (1995-12-14) (aged 57)
EducationPh.D 1972 Mathematics
Alma materPenn State University
OccupationProfessor
Known forGraph Theory / Combinatorics

Judith Querida Longyear (20 September 1938–13 December 1995[1]) was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University 1972, under the supervision of Sarvadaman Chowla, with a thesis entitled Tactical Configurations.[2][3] She taught mathematics at several universities including California Institute of Technology,[4] Dartmouth College[5] and Wayne State University.[6] She worked on nested block designs[4][7] and Hadamard matrices.[8]

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