Ronald James Gould (born April 15, 1950) is an American mathematician specializing in

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 ...

and graph theory. He is a Goodrich C. White professor emeritus in the Emory University Department of Mathematics.

Education and career

After attending

SUNY Fredonia The State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia) is a public university in Fredonia, New York, United States. It is the westernmost member of the State University of New York. Founded in 1826, it is the sixty-sixth-oldest institute of ...

for his undergraduate degree, Gould received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Western Michigan University. His thesis was titled ''Traceability in Graphs'', and was completed under the supervision of

Gary Chartrand Gary Theodore Chartrand (born 1936) is an American-born mathematician who specializes in graph theory. He is known for his textbooks on introductory graph theory and for the concept of a highly irregular graph. Biography Gary Chartrand was born ...

. He spent a short period as a lecturer at San Jose State University in 1978 and 1979, then moved to Emory University in 1979. He was named to the Goodrich C. White professorship in 2001, and retired in 2016. Gould is most noted for his work in the area of Hamiltonian graph theory. His book ''Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling: The Games People Play'' won the American Library Association award for Outstanding Academic Titles, 2010. Gould has over 180 mathematical publications, and has advised 28 Ph.D. students.

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External links

Ron Gould's homepage
at Emory University {{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Ronald J. Living people 1950 births Graph theorists 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Western Michigan University alumni Emory University faculty Place of birth missing (living people)