Peter L. Hammer

Peter L. Hammer
Born(1936-12-23)December 23, 1936
Timișoara, Kingdom of Romania
DiedDecember 27, 2006(2006-12-27) (aged 70)
Princeton, New Jersey
Known forOperations Research and Applied Discrete Mathematics
Awards"Gheorghe Țițeica" prize of the Romanian Academy of Science (1966),
Euler Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Mathematics
Doctoral advisorGrigore Moisil
For other uses, see Peter Hammer (disambiguation).

Peter Ladislaw Hammer (December 23, 1936, Timișoara – December 27, 2006, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American mathematician native to Romania. He contributed to the fields of operations research and applied discrete mathematics through the study of pseudo-Boolean functions and their connections to graph theory and data mining.[1][2][3][4]

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  3. ^ Boros, Endre; Crama, Yves; de Werra, Dominique; Hansen, Pierre; Maffray, Frédéric (2011), "The mathematics of Peter L. Hammer (1936–2006): graphs, optimization, and Boolean models" (PDF), Annals of Operations Research, 188: 1–18, doi:10.1007/s10479-011-0913-4, MR 2823186, S2CID 44764154.
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