R. A. Brualdi is a professor emeritus of
combinatorial mathematics at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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.
Brualdi received his Ph.D. from
Syracuse University
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in 1964; his advisor was
H. J. Ryser. Brualdi is an Editor-in-Chief of the
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. He has over 200 publications in several mathematical journals. According to current on-line database of Mathematics Genealogy Project, Richard Brualdi has 37 Ph.D. students and 48 academic descendants. The concept of
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was introduced in 1993 by Brualdi and Massey.
He received the
Euler medal from the
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
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in 2000. In 2012, he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. That same year, he became an inaugural fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2012-11-10.
Books
* (with Herbert J. Ryser
Cambridge Univ. Press
* Richard A. Brualdi, ''Introductory Combinatorics'', Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J.
* V. Pless, R. A. Brualdi, and W. C. Huffman, ''Handbook of Coding Theory'', Elsevier Science, New York, 1998
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* Richard A. Brualdi and Dragos Cvetkovic, ''A Combinatorial Approach to Matrix Theory and Its Applications'', CRC Press, Boca Raton Fla., 2009.
* Richard A. Brualdi and Bryan Shader
Bryan Lynn Shader (born 17 December 1961) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wyoming. He received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, his advisor was Professor Richard Brualdi. Shader is the Editor-in-chief of t ...
, ''Matrices of Sign-Solvable Linear Systems'', Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Vol. 116, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
* Richard A. Brualdi, ''The Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Graphs and Matrices'', American Mathematical Society, CBMS Series, 2012.
Selected articles
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References
External links
Richard Brualdi
a
University of Wisconsin- Madison
website
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Combinatorialists
Syracuse University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Living people
1939 births
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematicians from New York (state)