Jeff Kahn (mathematician)
Jeffry Ned Kahn is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University notable for his work in combinatorics.
Education
[edit]Kahn received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1979 after completing his dissertation under his advisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri.[1]
Research
[edit]In 1980 he showed the importance of the bundle theorem for ovoidal Möbius planes.[2] In 1993, together with Gil Kalai, he disproved Borsuk's conjecture.[3] In 1996 he was awarded the Pólya Prize (SIAM).
Awards and honors
[edit]He was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[citation needed]
In 2012, he was awarded the Fulkerson Prize (jointly with Anders Johansson and Van H. Vu) for determining the threshold of edge density above which a random graph can be covered by disjoint copies of a given smaller graph.[4][5] Also in 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Jeff Kahn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Inversive planes satisfying the bundle theorem, Journal Combinatorial Theory, Serie A, Vol.29, 1980, p. 1-19
- ^ Kahn, Jeff; Kalai, Gil (1993), "A counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 29: 60–62, arXiv:math.MG/9307229, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00398-7, MR 1193538, S2CID 119647518.
- ^ Anders Johansson, Jeff Kahn, and Van H. Vu (2008). "Factors in random graphs". Random Structures and Algorithms. 33 (1): 1–28. arXiv:0803.3406. doi:10.1002/rsa.20224. S2CID 14337643.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize". American Mathematical Society (AMS). Retrieved 3 Jan 2013.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
