Paul Seymour (mathematician)
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| Born |
26 July 1950 Plymouth, Devon, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Aubrey William Ingleton |
| Doctoral students | Guoli Ding Matthew DeVos Carl Johnson Maria Chudnovsky Eli Berger Sang-il Oum Blair Sullivan Alexandra Fradkin Ilhee Kim |
| Notable awards |
Ostrowski Prize (2003) George Pólya Prize (2004) |
Paul Seymour (born July 26, 1950) is currently a professor at Princeton University; half in the department of mathematics and half in the program in applied and computational math. His research interest is in discrete mathematics, especially graph theory. He (with others) was responsible for important progress on regular matroids and totally unimodular matrices, the four colour theorem, linkless embeddings, graph minors and structure, the perfect graph conjecture, the Hadwiger conjecture, and claw-free graphs. Many of his recent papers are available from his website.
He won a Sloan Fellowship in 1983, and the Ostrowski Prize in 2004; and (sometimes with others) won the Fulkerson Prize in 1979, 1994, 2006 and 2009, and the Pólya Prize in 1983 and 2004. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo in 2008 and one from the Technical University of Denmark in 2013.
Seymour was born in Plymouth, Devon, England. He was a day student at Plymouth College, and then studied at Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a BA degree in 1971, and D.Phil in 1975.
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