Mathematician:Ronald Lewis Graham

American mathematician famous for his work in the field of Ramsey theory.

Notable for introducing Graham's number, the largest number ever yet encountered in mathematics.

Popularized the concept of the Erdős number.

Husband of Fan Chung Graham, friend and colleague of Paul Erdős.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: October 31, 1935, Taft, California.

Theorems and Definitions

 * Graham's Number

Books and Papers

 * 1975: On multicolor Ramsey numbers for complete bipartite graphs (with Fan Chung)
 * 1989: (with Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik) (2nd edition: 1994) (ISBN 0-201-55802-5)
 * 1989: Steiner trees on a checkerboard (with Martin Gardner and Fan Chung)