Paul Chester Kainen is an American mathematician, an adjunct associate professor of mathematics and director of the Lab for Visual Mathematics at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

. Kainen is the author of a popular book on the four color theorem, and is also known for his work on

book embedding In graph theory, a book embedding is a generalization of planar embedding of a graph to embeddings into a ''book'', a collection of half-planes all having the same line as their boundary. Usually, the vertices of the graph are required to lie ...

s of graphs.

Biography

Kainen received his Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University in 1966 and was awarded the Ruggles Prize for Excellence in Mathematics. He went on to get his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1970 with

Peter Hilton Peter John Hilton (7 April 1923Peter Hilton, "On all Sorts of Automorphisms", '' The American Mathematical Monthly'', 92(9), November 1985, p. 6506 November 2010) was a British mathematician, noted for his contributions to homotopy theory and ...

as his thesis advisor. Kainen's father was the American artist Jacob Kainen.

Selected publications

*. 2nd ed., Dover, 1986, , . *.

References

External links

Home page
at Georgetown
Paul Kainen's Page on Industrial Mathematics and BioPhotonics
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