Richard H. Schelp (April 21, 1936,

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, United States – November 29, 2010,

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, USA) was an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. Schelp received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and

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from the

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and his master's degree and doctorate in mathematics from

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. The adviser from his thesis was Richard Joseph Greechie. He was an associate mathematician and missile scientist at

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for five years. He then became an instructor of mathematics at

for four years. Finally in 1970 he became a professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the

University of Memphis } The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public university, public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering ...

. He retired in 2001. Schelp, an

Erdős number The Erdős number () describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers. The same principle has been applied in other fields where a particular individual ...

one mathematician, was the fourth most frequent scholarly collaborator with

Paul Erdős Paul Erdős ( hu, Erdős Pál ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in ...

. He also collaborated on research with another top ten most frequent Erdős collaborator, Ralph Faudree, who was based at the University of Memphis as well.

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1936 births 2010 deaths Scientists from Kansas City, Missouri University of Central Missouri alumni Kansas State University alumni 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Mathematicians from Missouri Scientists from Missouri Johns Hopkins University faculty Kansas State University faculty University of Memphis faculty {{US-mathematician-stub

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