Neil J. Calkin
Neil Calkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Neil James Calkin 29 March 1961 |
| Nationality | American/British/Canadian |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge University of Waterloo (Ph.D.. in 1988) |
| Known for | Calkin–Wilf tree Electronic Journal of Combinatorics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Clemson University Georgia Tech Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ian Goulden |
Neil J. Calkin (born March 29, 1961) is a professor at Clemson University in the Algebra and Discrete Mathematics group of the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. His interests are in combinatorial and probabilistic methods, mainly as applied to number theory.
Together with Herbert Wilf he founded The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics in 1994.[1] He and Wilf developed the Calkin–Wilf tree and the associated Calkin–Wilf sequence.[2]
Biography
Neil Calkin was born March 29, 1961, in Hartford, Connecticut and moved to the UK around the age of 3. He grew up there and studied mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge before moving to Canada in 1984 to study in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo where he was awarded a Ph.D. (1988) for his thesis "Sum-Free Sets and Measure Spaces" written under the supervision of Ian Peter Goulden.[3]
He was the Zeev Nehari Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University (1988—1991), an assistant professor at Georgia Tech (1991—1997),[4] and joined the Algebra and Discrete Mathematics group of the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University in 1997.[5]
Calkin has an Erdös number of 1.[6] He was one of the last people to collaborate with Erdős and once said of him, "One of my greatest regrets is that I didn't know him when he was a million times faster than most people. When I knew him he was only hundreds of times faster."[7]
Selected papers
- Neil J. Calkin and Herbert S. Wilf, "The Number of Independent Sets in a Grid Graph", SIAM Journal of Discrete Math, 11 (1998), Number 1, 54-60
- Neil J. Calkin and Herbert S. Wilf, "Recounting the Rationals", Amer. Math. Monthly 107(4) (2000), pp. 360–363, doi:10.2307/2589182, JSTOR 2589182
- Neil J Calkin, Killian Davis, Evan Haithcock, and Catherine Kenyon; "What Newton Might Have Known: Experimental Mathematics in the Classroom", Amer. Math. Monthly 128(9) (January 2021)
- Neil J. Calkin, Beth Novick and Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa; "What Moser Could Have Asked: Counting Hamilton Cycles in Tournaments", Amer. Math. Monthly, 123(4) (April 2016), pp. 382–386
Books
- Experimental Mathematics in Action By David H. Bailey, Neil Calkin, et al., A K Peters/CRC Press (May 2000), ISBN 9781568812717
References
- ^ About the Journal The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
- ^ "Recounting the Rationals", by Neil Calkin and Herbert S. Wilf, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 107, No. 4 (Apr., 2000), pp. 360-363
- ^ Neil Calkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Calkin ResearchGate
- ^ Mathematical and Statistical Sciences: Neil Calkin Clemson University
- ^ Neil J. Calkin and Paul Erdős, "On a Class of Aperiodic Sum-free Sets", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 120 (1996), 1-5.
- ^ My Brain Is Open : The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998) by Bruce Schechter, p. 119
External links
- Articles with hCards
- AC with 0 elements
- 20th-century English mathematicians
- 21st-century English mathematicians
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- University of Waterloo alumni
- Clemson University faculty
- Combinatorial game theorists
- Recreational mathematicians
- Mathematics popularizers
- Combinatorialists
- Probability theorists
- Number theorists
- 1961 births
- Living people