Jon Hal Folkman | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 8, 1938 Ogden, Utah, US[1] |
| Died | January 23, 1969 (aged 30) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Known for | Folkman graph Shapley–Folkman lemma & theorem Folkman–Lawrence representation Folkman's theorem (memorial) Homology of lattices and matroids |
| Awards | Putnam Fellow (1960) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Combinatorics |
| Institutions | RAND Corporation |
| Doctoral advisor | John Milnor |
Jon Hal Folkman (December 8, 1938 – January 23, 1969)[3] was an American mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation.
- ^ Jon Hal Folkman at FamilySearch
- ^ "Obituaries". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. January 24, 1969. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Birth and death dates from Graham, R. L.; Rothschild, B. L. (1971), "Ramsey's theorem for n-parameter sets", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 159: 257–292, doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1971-0284352-8, JSTOR 1996010, and from Spencer, Joel (1971), "Optimal ranking of tournaments", Networks, 1 (2): 135–138, doi:10.1002/net.3230010204, both of which were dedicated to the memory of Folkman.
