Torrence Parsons

Torrence Douglas Parsons (19411987) was an American mathematician.

He worked mainly in graph theory, and is known for introducing a graph-theoretic view of pursuit-evasion problems (Parsons 1976, 1978). He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1966 under the supervision of Albert W. Tucker.[1]

Selected publications

Notes

  1. Torrence Parsons at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Further reading

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