Dan Steven Archdeacon (1954–2015) was an American graph theorist specializing in topological graph theory,[1][2] who served for many years as a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Vermont.[3]

Archdeacon was born on May 11, 1954, in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Centerville, Ohio. He did his undergraduate studies at Earlham College, graduating in 1975.[1] He completed his Ph.D. in 1980 from Ohio State University, under the supervision of Henry Hatfield Glover, with a dissertation proving an analogue of Kuratowski's theorem for the projective plane.[4] He took a position at the University of Vermont in 1982, joining fellow graph theorist and Ohio State graduate Jeff Dinitz, after previously working as an instructor at the University of Kansas.[1][3] He died of cancer on February 18, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont.[1]

In 2003–2004, the University of Vermont named him as University Scholar.[2][3] A special issue of the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics was published in his honor in 2017.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Bonnington, C. Paul; Dinitz, Jeff; Širáň, Jozef (2017), "Special issue in honour of Dan S. Archdeacon: guest editorial" (PDF), Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 67: 65–76, MR 3607813
  2. 1 2 Bokal, Drago; Mohar, Bojan; Širáň, Jozef (2017), "Dan Archdeacon (11 May 1954 to 18 February 2015)", News and Photos, Ars Mathematica Contemporanea, 12 (1), MR 3647300
  3. 1 2 3 "Mathematics Professor Dan Archdeacon Dies After 33-Year Career at UVM", University Communications, University of Vermont, February 20, 2015, retrieved 2017-08-03
  4. ↑ Dan Archdeacon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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