Jon Folkman

Jon Hal Folkman
Born(1938-12-08)December 8, 1938
DiedJanuary 23, 1969(1969-01-23) (aged 30)
Alma materPrinceton University
Known forFolkman graph
Shapley–Folkman lemma & theorem
Folkman–Lawrence representation
Folkman's theorem (memorial)
Homology of lattices and matroids
AwardsPutnam Fellow (1960)
Scientific career
FieldsCombinatorics
InstitutionsRAND Corporation
Doctoral advisorJohn 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.

  1. ^ Jon Hal Folkman at FamilySearch
  2. ^ "Obituaries". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. January 24, 1969. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ 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.