Cecil Clyde Rousseau, Jr. (January 13, 1938 Philadelphia - April 10, 2020 Memphis) was a mathematician and author who specialized in graph theory and

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...

. He was a professor at The University of Memphis starting in 1970 until retiring in 2008, and was involved with USAMO in many capacities, including serving as chair. Rousseau received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1968 from Texas A&M University. He has an Erdős number of 1, and is Erdős' 5th most common co-author, with 35 joint papers. He also frequently collaborated with Memphis faculty

Ralph Faudree Ralph Jasper Faudree (August 23, 1939 – January 13, 2015) was a mathematician, a professor of mathematics and the former provost of the University of Memphis.

and Dick Schelp. In 2012, Rousseau received the Paul Erdős Award from the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions. To his students and colleagues, he was known affectionately as C²R.

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1938 births 2020 deaths Graph theorists Texas A&M University alumni University of Memphis faculty Mathematicians from Philadelphia {{US-mathematician-stub