Richard Rado

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Richard Rado
Richard Rado, ca. 1967
Born(1906-04-28)28 April 1906
Died23 December 1989(1989-12-23) (aged 83)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Berlin
Known forErdős–Rado theorem
Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem
Milner–Rado paradox
AwardsSenior Berwick Prize (1972), Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorG. H. Hardy
Issai Schur
Doctoral studentsDavid Daykin
Gabriel Dirac
Kenneth Gravett
Eric Milner

Richard Rado FRS[1] (28 April 1906 – 23 December 1989) was a Jewish German mathematician. He earned two Ph.D.s: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge.[2][3][4] He was interviewed in Berlin by Lord Cherwell for a scholarship given by the chemist Sir Robert Mond which provided financial support to study at Cambridge. After he was awarded the scholarship, Rado and his wife left for the UK in 1933. He made contributions in combinatorics and graph theory. He wrote 18 papers with Paul Erdős. In 1964, he discovered the Rado graph.

In 1972, he was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize.[5]

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  2. ^ Richard Rado at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Richard Rado", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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  5. ^ Berwick prizes page at The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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