Herbert Saul Wilf | |
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| Born | June 13, 1931 |
| Died | January 7, 2012 (aged 80) Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Combinatorics Wilf equivalence Wilf number Wilf's sequence Wilf–Zeilberger pair Calkin–Wilf tree Stanley–Wilf conjecture Szekeres–Wilf number |
| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (1998) Euler Medal (2002) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | The Transmission of Neutrons in Multilayered Slab Geometry (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert Ellis Robbins |
| Doctoral students | Fan Chung Richard Garfield Rodica Simion E. Roy Weintraub Michael Wertheimer |
Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers. Together with Neil Calkin he founded The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics in 1994 and was its editor-in-chief until 2001.