Alan Tucker

Alan Curtiss Tucker is an American mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at Stony Brook University, and the author of a widely used textbook on combinatorics;[1][2] he has also made research contributions to graph theory and coding theory.

Education and career

Tucker is the son of mathematician Albert W. Tucker.[3] He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1965 and then went on to graduate studies at Stanford University, earning a master's degree in 1967 and a doctorate in 1969.[4] His doctoral thesis, supervised by George Dantzig, concerned circular-arc graphs.[5] He then joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook University in 1970, and has remained there for the rest of his career. Since 1989, he has been a S.U.N.Y. Distinguished Teaching Professor at Stony Brook. Since 2011, he has been editor in chief of the journal Applied Mathematics Letters.[4]

Awards and honors

In 2009, Tucker was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6] He became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.[7]

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. Review of Applied Combinatorics together with three other combinatorics texts by Albert Nijenhuis (1988), American Mathematical Monthly 95 (4): 363–365, JSTOR 2323584.
  2. Review of Applied Combinatorics (2nd ed.), Andy Liu (1988), SIAM Review 30 (2): 337–339, doi:10.1137/1030075.
  3. AWTucker vignettes, linked from Alan C. Tucker's home page as "stories that my father A W Tucker told me", retrieved 2014-10-07.
  4. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2014-10-07.
  5. Alan Curtiss Tucker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Three Faculty Named 2009 AAAS Fellows, Stony Brook University, January 26, 2010. Retrieved 2014-10-07.
  7. List of inaugural fellows, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-10-07.
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