Yousef Alavi
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Yousef Alavi is an American mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and graph theory.[1] He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1958.[2] He was a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University from 1958 until his retirement in 1996;[3] he chaired the department from 1989 to 1992.[4] Alavi's Erdős number is 1 due to eight joint papers with Paul Erdős, who frequently visited him in Kalamazoo.[5][6] In 1987 he received the first Distinguished Service Award of the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America due to his 30 years of service to the MAA; at that time, the Michigan House and Senate issued a special resolution honoring him.[7]
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[edit] References
- ^ On Google scholar
- ^ Yousef Alavi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Emeritus faculty, Western Michigan University mathematics department.
- ^ History of the department, Western Michigan University mathematics department.
- ^ Erdős number project. Archived 1 February 2010 at WebCite
- ^ Baker, A.; Bollobás, B. (1999), "Paul Erdős. 26 March 1913–20 September 1996", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 45: 148–164.
- ^ Michigan Section's Award Recipients.
- ^ Books on Amazon
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